Studying Galactic interstellar turbulence through fluctuations in synchrotron emission: First LOFAR Galactic foreground detection

Date

2013

Authors

Pizzo, R
Bonafede, A
Heald, G
Kuniyoshi, M
Reich, W
Sobey, C
Asgekar, A
Bentum, M J
Bernardi, G
Best, Phillip

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Springer

Abstract

Aims. The characteristic outer scale of turbulence (i.e. the scale at which the dominant source of turbulence injects energy to the interstellar medium) and the ratio of the random to ordered components of the magnetic field are key parameters to characte

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Keywords: ISM: general; ISM: magnetic fields; ISM: structure; Radio continuum: general; Radio continuum: ISM; Techniques: interferometric; Estimation; Magnetic fields; Power spectrum; Synchrotron radiation; Turbulence ISM: general; ISM: magnetic fields; ISM: structure; Radio continuum: general; Radio continuum: ISM; Techniques: interferometric

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Astronomy and Astrophysics

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