A VLA Study of Newly-Discovered Southern Latitude Non-Thermal Filaments in the Galactic Center: Polarimetric and Magnetic Field Properties

Dylan M Pare; Cornelia C Lang; Mark R Morris

doi:10.48550/arxiv.2408.16745

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A VLA Study of Newly-Discovered Southern Latitude Non-Thermal Filaments in the Galactic Center: Polarimetric and Magnetic Field Properties

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A VLA Study of Newly-Discovered Southern Latitude Non-Thermal Filaments in the Galactic Center: Polarimetric and Magnetic Field Properties

Dylan M Pare, Cornelia C Lang and Mark R Morris

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Cornell University

08/29/2024

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.16745

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Abstract

A population of structures unique to the Galactic Center (GC), known as the non-thermal filaments (NTFs), has been studied for over 40 years, but much remains unknown about them. In particular, there is no widely-accepted and unified understanding for how the relativistic electrons illuminating these structures are generated. One possibility is that there are compact and extended sources of Cosmic Rays (CRs), which then diffuse along magnetic flux tubes leading to the illumination of the NTFs through synchrotron emission. In this work, we present and discuss the polarimetric distributions associated with a set of faint NTFs in the GC that have only been studied in total intensity previously. We compare the derived polarized intensity, rotation measure, and intrinsic magnetic field distributions for these structures with the results obtained for previously observed GC NTFs. The results are then used to enhance our understanding of the large-scale polarimetric properties of the GC. We then use the derived polarimetric distributions to constrain models for the mechanisms generating the relativistic electrons that illuminate these structures.

Physics - Astrophysics of Galaxies

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Title: Subtitle: A VLA Study of Newly-Discovered Southern Latitude Non-Thermal Filaments in the Galactic Center: Polarimetric and Magnetic Field Properties
Creators: Dylan M Pare - Villanova University
Cornelia C Lang - University of Iowa
Mark R Morris - University of California, Los Angeles
Resource Type: Preprint
Publication Details: ArXiv.org
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.16745
ISSN: 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University; Ithaca, New York
Language: English
Date posted: 08/29/2024
Academic Unit: Liberal Arts and Science Admin; Physics and Astronomy
Record Identifier: 9984701558202771

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