Parsec-scale structure in the warm ISM from polarized galactic radio background observations

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2001-11-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0111381v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in "Astrophysical Polarized Backgrounds", Conference Proceedings, eds S. Cecchini, S. Cortiglioni, R. Sault and C. S

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.1471826

We present multi-frequency polarization observations of the diffuse radio synchrotron background modulated by Faraday rotation, in two directions of positive latitude. No extended total intensity I is observed, which implies that total intensity has no structure on scales smaller than approximately a degree. Polarized intensity and polarization angle, however, show abundant small-scale structure on scales from arcminutes to degrees. Rotation Measure (RM) maps show coherent structure over many synthesized beams, but also abrupt large changes over one beam. RM's from polarized extragalactic point sources are correlated over the field in each of the two fields, indicating a galactic component to the RM, but show no correlation with the RM map of the diffuse radiation. The upper limit in structure in I puts constraints on the random and regular components of the magnetic field in the galactic interstellar medium and halo. The emission is partly depolarized so that the observed polarization mostly originates from a nearby part of the medium. This explains the lack of correlation between RM from diffuse emission and from extragalactic point sources as the latter is built up over the entire path length through the medium.

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