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Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence as a Foreground for Cosmic Microwave Background Studies

Author(s) -

Jungyeon Cho,

A. Lazarian

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

the astrophysical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376

H-Index - 489

eISSN - 1538-4357

pISSN - 0004-637X

DOI - 10.1086/342722

Subject(s) - physics , starlight , astrophysics , line of sight , turbulence , polarization (electrochemistry) , cosmic microwave background , spectral line , magnetohydrodynamic turbulence , magnetohydrodynamics , stars , astronomy , magnetic field , optics , anisotropy , mechanics , chemistry , quantum mechanics

Measurements of intensity and polarization of diffuse Galactic synchrotron emission as well as starlight polarization reveal power law spectra of fluctuations. We show that these fluctuations can arise from magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in the Galactic disk and halo. To do so we take into account the converging geometry of lines of sight for the observations when the observer is within the turbulent volume. Assuming that the intensity of turbulence changes along the line of sight, we get a reasonable fit to the observed synchrotron data. As for the spectra of polarized starlight we get a good fit to the observations taking into account the fact that the observational sample is biased toward nearby stars

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