J/other/Galax/7.ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/Galax/7.43CDSOrdog A.Booth R.A.Van Eck C.L.Brown J.-A.C.Landecker T.L.2019-06-12T11:48:26Z2019-04-10T12:21:15ZCDS support team

CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France

cds-question@unistra.frinterstellar-mediumpolarimetrymagnetic-fieldsThe Galactic magnetic field is an integral constituent of the interstellar medium (ISM), and knowledge of its structure is crucial to understanding Galactic dynamics. The Rotation Measures (RM) of extragalactic (EG) sources have been the basis of comprehensive Galactic magnetic field models. Polarised extended emission (XE) is also seen along lines of sight through the Galactic disk, and also displays the effects of Faraday rotation. Our aim is to investigate and understand the relationship between EG and XE RMs near the Galactic plane, and to determine how the XE RMs, a hitherto unused resource, can be used as a probe of the large-scale Galactic magnetic field. We used polarisation data from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS), observed near 1420 MHz with the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO) Synthesis Telescope. We calculated RMs from a linear fit to the polarisation angles as a function of wavelength squared in four frequency channels, for both the EG sources and the XE. Across the CGPS area, l=55 to l=193 degrees, b=-3 to b=5 degrees, the RMs of the XE closely track the RMs of the EG sources, with XE RMs about half the value of EG-source RMs. The exceptions are places where large local HII complexes heavily depolarise more distant emission. We conclude that there is valuable information in the XE RM dataset. The factor of 2 between the two types of RM values is close to that expected from a Burn slab model of the ISM. This result indicates that, at least in the outer Galaxy, the EG and XE sources are likely probing similar depths, and that the Faraday rotating medium and the synchrotron emitting medium have similar variation with galactocentric distance.2019Galax...7...43Ohttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/other/Galax/7.43CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toVI/128 : Log of CGPS exposures (Taylor+, 2003-)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/other/Galax/7.43https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/other/Galax/7.43http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/other/Galax/7.43https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/other/Galax/7.43https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/other/Galax/7.43http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/other/Galax/7.43GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/other/Galax/7.43/list (Information on fits image)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/other/Galax/7.43/list?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/other/Galax/7.43/list?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/other/Galax/7.43/list?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true132.2827476-42.2130220.005555555555555556Associated datahttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/assocdata/?obs_collection=J/other/Galax/7.436/39251https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/other/Galax/7.43?format=asciidefaultJ/other/Galax/7.43/listInformation on fits imagerecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintGLONGalactic longitude of center (J2000)degpos.galactic.lonGLATGalactic latitude of center (J2000)degpos.galactic.latNxNumber of pixels along X-axismeta.numberintNyNumber of pixels along Y-axismeta.numberintsizeSize of FITS fileKibytephys.size;meta.fitsintFileNameName of FITS file, in subdirectory fitsmeta.id;meta.fitscharTitleTitle of the FITS filemeta.title;meta.fitschar_RA.icrsRight ascension (ICRS) (computed by VizieR, not part of the original data. The format may include more digits than the original data because of internal accuracy requirements in VizieR and across other CDS services)degpos.eq.ranullableindexed_DE.icrsDeclination (ICRS) (computed by VizieR, not part of the original data. The format may include more digits than the original data because of internal accuracy requirements in VizieR and across other CDS services)degpos.eq.decnullableindexed