Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2plfb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-30T06:28:33.972Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Large-Scale Magnetic Field Structure Near the Galactic Centre

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Wolfgang Reich*
Affiliation:
Max–Planck–Institut für Radioastronomie Auf dem Hügel 69 5300 Bonn 1, FRG

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

High frequency polarization observations reveal the existence of a poloidal magnetic field structure in the Galactic Centre region on scales of about 200 pc. At lower frequencies large non–thermal spurs are seen tracing the magnetic field up to kpc distances from the Galactic Centre.

Type
7. Magnetic Fields in Galactic Nuclei
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

References

Duric, N., Sandquist, E.R., Crane, P.C., Bignell, R.C. and Davis, L.E. (1983) Astrophys. J. 273, L11.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reich, W., Sofue, Y. and Fürst, E. (1988a) Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 39, 573.Google Scholar
Reich, W., Sofue, Y., Wielebinski, R. and Seiradakis, J.H. (1988b) Astron. Astrophys. 191, 303.Google Scholar
Reich, W., Reich, P. and Fürst, E. (1990) Astron. Astrophys. Suppl., submitted Google Scholar
Seiradakis, J.H., Lasenby, A.N., Yusef–Zadeh, F., Wielebinski, R. and Klein, U. (1985) Nature 317, 697.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Seiradakis, J.H., Reich, W., Wielebinski, R., Lasenby, A.N. and Yusef–Zadeh, F. (1989) Astron. Astrophys. Suppl., in press.Google Scholar
Sofue, Y. and Handa, T. (1984) Nature 310, 568.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sofue, Y., Reich, W., Inoue, M. and Seiradakis, J.H. (1987) Publ. Astron. Soc. Japan 39, 95.Google Scholar
Sofue, Y., Reich, W. and Reich, P. (1989a) Astrophys. J. 341, L41.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sofue, Y., Reich, W. and Reich, P. (1989b) in Morris, M. (ed.), The Centre of the Galaxy, IAU Symp. No. 136, Kluwer Acad. Publ., Dordrecht, p. 233 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tsuboi, M., Inoue, M., Handa, T., Tabara, H., Kato, T., Sofue, Y. and Kaifu, N. (1986) Astron. J. 92, 818.Google Scholar
Yusef–Zadeh, F., Morris, M. and van Gorkom, J.H. (1989) in Morris, M. (ed.), The Centre of the Galaxy, IAU Symp. No. 136, Kluwer Acad. Publ., Dordrecht, p. 275.CrossRefGoogle Scholar