Highly Polarized Counterpart of the Double Helix Nebula

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Aug 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010apj...719l.177t&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 719, Issue 2, pp. L177-L180 (2010).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Galaxy: Center, Galaxy: Nucleus, Ism: Clouds, Ism: Magnetic Fields, Ism: Supernova Remnants

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We identified the double helix nebula (DHN) found by the Spitzer Space Telescopein the Galactic center region as a highly polarized feature at 10 GHz with the Nobeyama 45 m telescope. The DHN is located near the north end of the polarized plumes. The position angles of Faraday rotation corrected B vectors in the DHN are presumably along the twisting IR filaments. The linear polarization degree of the DHN is as large as p = 10%, and reaches p = 15% ± 2% at the radio polarization peak of the DHN. This means that the DHN has highly ordered magnetic field with synchrotron-emitting relativistic electrons.

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