Synchrotron Polarization at High Galactic Latitude
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We present preliminary results from mapping the high-latitude Galactic polarization with the Effelsberg Telescope at 21 cm. Structures on the resulting maps are mostly on the scale of several degrees. The results show detection of polarization over most of the field, at the level of tens of percent of the synchrotron emission. The evidence of more structure in Stokes Q and U rather than in suggests the existence of Faraday rotation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0307078,
title = {Synchrotron Polarization at High Galactic Latitude},
author = {Z. Zainal Abidin and J. P. Leahy and A. Wilkinson and P. Reich and W. Reich and R. Wielebinski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0307078},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
To be published in the proceedings of "The Cosmic Microwave Background and its Polarization", New Astronomy Reviews, (eds. S. Hanany and K.A. Olive)