On the potential of faraday tomography to identify shock structures in supernova remnants
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- Shinsuke Ideguchi
- Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University , PO Box 9010, NL-6500 GL Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Tsuyoshi Inoue
- Department of Physics, Konan University , Okamoto 8-9-1, Kobe, Japan
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- Takuya Akahori
- Mizusawa VLBI Observatory, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan , 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
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- Keitaro Takahashi
- Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Kumamoto University , 2-39-1, Kurokami, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan
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<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title> <jats:p>Knowledge about the magnetic fields in supernova remnants (SNRs) is of paramount importance for constraining Galactic cosmic ray acceleration models. It could also indirectly provide information on the interstellar magnetic fields. In this paper, we predict the Faraday dispersion functions (FDFs) of SNRs for the first time. For this study, we use the results of three dimensional (3D) ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of SNRs expanding into a weak, regular magnetic field. We present the intrinsic FDFs of the shocked region of SNRs for different viewing angles. We find that the FDFs are generally Faraday complex, which implies that conventional rotation measure study is not sufficient to obtain the information on the magnetic fields in the shocked region and Faraday tomography is necessary. We also show that the FDF allows to derive the physical-depth distribution of polarization intensity when the line of sight is parallel to the initial magnetic field orientation. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the location of contact discontinuity can be identified from the radial profile of the width of the FDF with the accuracy of 0.1–0.2 pc.</jats:p>
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- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 513 (3), 3289-3301, 2022-04-22
Oxford University Press (OUP)
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- CRID
- 1360017282447551232
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- ISSN
- 13652966
- 00358711
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