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Galactic Magnetic Turbulence from Radio data
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Submitted 28 Jan 2011
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The authors' main claim Results favour a power spectrum significantly flatter than for 3D Kolmogorov-like turbulence, and a thin halo.
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Fluctuations in the Galactic synchrotron emission can be traced by the angular power spectrum of radio maps at low multipoles. At frequencies below few GHz, large-scale anisotropies are mainly induced by magnetic field turbulence. By performing an analysis of five radio maps, we extract constraints on turbulence spectral index and halo scale. Results favour a power spectrum significantly flatter than for 3D Kolmogorov-like turbulence, and a thin halo. This can be interpreted as an indication supporting non-conventional models of propagation of cosmic-ray particles in the Galaxy, or as a suggestion of a spectral-index break in the observed magnetic turbulence power spectrum.
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| s0 | Fluctuations in the Galactic synchrotron emission can be traced by the angular power spectrum of radio maps at low multipoles. | background 0.84 | 0.19 | 0.03 | asserted 0.88 |
| s1 | At frequencies below few GHz, large-scale anisotropies are mainly induced by magnetic field turbulence. | background 0.96 | 0.12 | 0.06 | asserted 0.98 |
| s2 | By performing an analysis of five radio maps, we extract constraints on turbulence spectral index and halo scale. | method 0.78 | 0.97 | 0.06 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | Results favour a power spectrum significantly flatter than for 3D Kolmogorov-like turbulence, and a thin halo. | result 1.00 | 0.94 | 0.77 | asserted 0.55 |
| s4 | This can be interpreted as an indication supporting non-conventional models of propagation of cosmic-ray particles in the Galaxy, or as a suggestion of a spectral-index break in the observed magnetic turbulence power spectrum. | interpretation 1.00 | 0.42 | 0.39 | hedged possibility 1.00 |
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Fluctuations in the Galactic synchrotron emission can be traced by the angular power spectrum of radio maps at low multipoles. At frequencies below few GHz, large-scale anisotropies are mainly induced by magnetic field turbulence. By performing an analysis of five radio maps, we extract constraints on turbulence spectral index and halo scale. Results favour a power spectrum significantly flatter than for 3D Kolmogorov-like turbulence, and a thin halo. This can be interpreted as an indication supporting non-conventional models of propagation of cosmic-ray particles in the Galaxy, or as a suggestion of a spectral-index break in the observed magnetic turbulence power spectrum.
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We consider angular power–spectra at different frequencies derived in Ref. [ref] with estimates of source contribution as in Ref. [ref] .
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Synchrotron radiation is one of the most important of these foregrounds, and its temperature power spectrum has been the subject of several studies, e.g. [ref] .
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In the energy range of interest, typical numbers for the Galaxy are $D∼D_0 ≃3·10^28 cm^2s^-1$ and $τ≃10^16 (E/GeV)^-1$ s [ref] , which translate into $d_L≳4$ kpc for electrons with energy below 10 GeV.
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Although the analysis in [ref] relies on some assumptions (e.g., same spectral index for electron and magnetic fluctuations) and is limited to a small high-latitude region in the outer Galaxy (while significant variations of RM structure function across the sky have been reported [ref] ), the rough agreement with this work is very encouraging.[Note that rotation measures are sensitive to the line-of-sight component of the magnetic field in thermal gas, while synchrotron data probe the perpendicular component of the field illuminated by cosmic rays.
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Although the analysis in [ref] relies on some assumptions (e.g., same spectral index for electron and magnetic fluctuations) and is limited to a small high-latitude region in the outer Galaxy (while significant variations of RM structure function across the sky have been reported [ref] ), the rough agreement with this work is very encouraging.[Note that rotation measures are sensitive to the line-of-sight component of the magnetic field in thermal gas, while synchrotron data probe the perpendicular component of the field illuminated by cosmic rays.
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If data are interpreted assuming a low convection wind (i.e., null or linearly increasing in the vertical direction), ratios of secondaries to primaries can be typically well-fitted by diffusion (plus reacceleration) models with Kolmogorov ($γ=1/3$) [ref] or Kraichnan ($γ=1/2$) [ref] spectrum of turbulence.
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If data are interpreted assuming a low convection wind (i.e., null or linearly increasing in the vertical direction), ratios of secondaries to primaries can be typically well-fitted by diffusion (plus reacceleration) models with Kolmogorov ($γ=1/3$) [ref] or Kraichnan ($γ=1/2$) [ref] spectrum of turbulence.
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Then it is commonly postulated that magnetic fields are frozen into the ionized interstellar medium and so magnetic turbulence should show the same power-spectrum [ref] ; however this possibility, although reasonable, needs to be proven.
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