Galactic foreground science: Faraday Tomography at low frequencies
Abstract
This contribution describes how low-frequency radio-spectropolarimetric imaging as done for Epoch of Reionization detection is used to investigate the nearby Galactic interstellar medium. The method of Faraday Tomography allows disentangling of every line of sight into various components in Faraday depth, which is a proxy for density-weighted magnetic field. I discuss instrumental biases and side effects of this method, and early results it has yielded.
- Publication:
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Peering towards Cosmic Dawn
- Pub Date:
- May 2018
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921318000820
- Bibcode:
- 2018IAUS..333..129H
- Keywords:
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- ISM: magnetic fields;
- ISM: structure;
- techniques: polarimetric;
- radio continuum: ISM