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The Fan Region at 1.5 GHz - I. Polarized synchrotron emission extending beyond the Perseus Arm

Journal
Date Issued
2017
Author(s)
Hill, A. S.
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Landecker, T. L.
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Douglas, K.
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Sun, X. H.
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Gaensler, B. M.
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Mao, S. A.
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McClure-Griffiths, N. M.
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Reich, W.
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Wolleben, M.
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Dickey, J. M.
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Gray, A. D.
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Haverkorn, M.
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Leahy, J. P.
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Schnitzeler, D. H. F. M.
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Abstract
The Fan Region is one of the dominant features in the polarized radio sky, long thought to be a local (distance ≲500 pc) synchrotron feature. We present 1.3-1.8 GHz polarized radio continuum observations of the region from the Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey and compare them to maps of Hα and polarized radio continuum intensity from 0.408 to 353 GHz. The high-frequency (>1 GHz) and low-frequency (≲600 MHz) emissions have different morphologies, suggesting a different physical origin. Portions of the 1.5 GHz Fan Region emission are depolarized by ≈30 per cent by ionized gas structures in the Perseus Arm, indicating that this fraction of the emission originates ≳2 kpc away. We argue for the same conclusion based on the high polarization fraction at 1.5 GHz (≈40 per cent). The Fan Region is offset with respect to the Galactic plane, covering -5° ≲ b ≲ +10°; we attribute this offset to the warp in the outer Galaxy. We discuss origins of the polarized emission, including the spiral Galactic magnetic field. This idea is a plausible contributing factor although no model to date readily reproduces all of the observations. We conclude that models of the Galactic magnetic field should account for the ≳1 GHz emission from the Fan Region as a Galactic scale, not purely local, feature.
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467
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4
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4631
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0035-8711
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2017MNRAS.467.4631H
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