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FAST polarization mapping of the SNR VRO 42.05.01

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2023-06-05 v1

Abstract

We have obtained the polarization data cube of the VRO 42.05.01 supernova remnant at 1240 MHz using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Three-dimensional Faraday Synthesis is applied to the FAST data to derive the Faraday depth spectrum. The peak Faraday depth map shows a large area of enhanced foreground RM of ~60 rad m-2 extending along the remnant's "wing" section, which coincides with a large-scale HI shell at -20 km/s. The two depolarization patches within the "wing" region with RM of 97 rad m-2 and 55 rad m-2 coincide with two HI structures in the HI shell. Faraday screen model fitting on the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS) 1420 MHz full-scale polarization data reveals a distance of 0.7-0.8d_{SNR} in front of the SNR with enhanced regular magnetic field there. The highly piled-up magnetic field indicates that the HI shell at -20 km/s could originate from an old evolved SNR.

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@article{arxiv.2306.01321,
  title  = {FAST polarization mapping of the SNR VRO 42.05.01},
  author = {Li Xiao and Ming Zhu and Xiao-Hui Sun and Peng Jiang and Chun Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.01321},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

9 pages, 8 figures, accepted by ApJ