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A bisymmetric spiral magnetic field in the Milky Way

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Y. Sofue  and
M. Fujimoto
Y. Sofue
Affiliation:
Nobeyama Radio Observatory, Tokyo Astronomical Observatory, and A. von Humboldt Fellow at the MPI für Radioastronomie Bonn
M. Fujimoto
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Nagoya University

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The distribution of Faraday rotation measure (RM) of extragalactic radio sources shows that a large-scale magnetic field in the Galaxy is oriented along the spiral arms. The field lines change direction from one arm to the next in the inter-arm region.

Type
PART II: COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE AND KINEMATICS
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 106: The Milky Way Galaxy , 1985 , pp. 251 - 252
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985 

References

Sofue, Y., and Fujimoto, M.: 1983, Astrophys. J. 265, 722 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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