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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 726, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/726/1/4
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ISM: magnetic fields; ISM: structure; radio continuum: ISM
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- Discovery Grant of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0969529, 0907893] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics [0969948, 0758085, 0969043, 0856411, 0900928, 0854911] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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An analysis of structure in rotation measure (RM) across the sky based on the RM catalog of Taylor et al. is presented. Several resolved RM structures are identified with structure in the local interstellar medium, including radio loops I, II, and III, the Gum nebula, and the Orion-Eridanus superbubble. Structure functions (SFs) of RM are presented for selected areas, and maps of SF amplitude and slope across the sky are compared with Ha intensity and diffuse polarized intensity. RM variance on an angular scale of 1 degrees is correlated with length of the line of sight through the Galaxy, with a contribution from local structures. The slope of the SFs is less concentrated to the Galactic plane and less correlated with length of the line of sight through the Galaxy, suggesting a more local origin for RM structure on angular scales similar to 10 degrees. The RM variance is a factor of similar to 2 higher toward the South Galactic Pole than toward the North Galactic Pole, reflecting a more wide-spread asymmetry between the northern and southern Galactic hemispheres. Depolarization of diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission at latitudes <30 degrees can be explained largely by Faraday dispersion related to small-scale variance in RM, but the errors allow a significant contribution from differential Faraday rotation along the line of sight.
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