Journal article
Determination of the properties of magnetic turbulence in radio sources
The Astrophysical journal, Vol.271(2), pp.L49-L53
1983
DOI: 10.1086/184093
Abstract
The transport of polarized synchrotron radiation in a source possessing a highly irregular magnetic field, as proposed by Laing has been considered. The transport equation has been solved in a special case, relating the observable correlation functions in the Stokes parameters Q and U to the correlation functions of magnetic field and plasma density in the source. A rough application of the results to observations of the radio galaxy 3C 166 indicates that the turbulent scale length may be a few percent of the lobe size.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Determination of the properties of magnetic turbulence in radio sources
- Creators
- S. R Spangler - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Astrophysical journal, Vol.271(2), pp.L49-L53
- DOI
- 10.1086/184093
- ISSN
- 0004-637X
- eISSN
- 1538-4357
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1983
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984199745902771
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