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Recent Results on Magnetic Fields in the Milky Way

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

R. Wielebinski ,
W. Reich  and
E. Fürst
R. Wielebinski
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, 53121 Bonn, Germany
W. Reich
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, 53121 Bonn, Germany
E. Fürst
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, 53121 Bonn, Germany

Abstract

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Of all the methods available to observe magnetic fields in the Milky Way, the mapping of linear polarization at cm wavelengths has proven to be most successful. The instruments that have contributed most of the new data are the 100 m Effelsberg telescope and the Parkes 64 m dish. Their Galactic plane surveys gave us a new conception of the linear polarization distribution. A new Effelsberg 1.4 GHz ‘medium latitude polarization survey’ now being made gives us data about large sections of the Galaxy. Polarization maps of selected regions of the Galaxy are now being made at several frequencies up to 32 GHz. Data from Westerbork at ∼ 325 MHz, as well as data from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS) at 1.4 GHz give new exciting information.

Type
II. Joint Discussions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 12: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIVth General Assembly of the IAU, 2000 , 2002 , pp. 719 - 720
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2002

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