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A comparison between Faraday Tomography and Synchrotron Polarization Gradients

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2020-01-08 v2 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

Observations of synchrotron polarization at multiple frequencies in the presence of Faraday rotation can provide a way to reconstruct the 3D magnetic field distribution. In this paper we compare the well known Faraday Tomography (FT, Burn 1966) technique to the new approach named Synchrotron Polarization Gradients (SPG, Lazarian & Yuen 2018b). We compare the strengths and limitations of the two techniques, and describe their synergy. In particular, we show that in the situations when FT technique fails, e.g. due to insufficient frequency coverage, the SPG can still trace the 3D structure of magnetic field.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1901.07731,
  title  = {A comparison between Faraday Tomography and Synchrotron Polarization Gradients},
  author = {Ka Wai Ho and Ka Ho Yuen and Po Kin Leung and A. Lazarian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.07731},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJ

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