The magnetic field of the milky way from faraday rotation of pulsars and extragalactic sources

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 166, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 307-324

  Noutsos, Aristeidis ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Milky Way: magnetic fields; Polarisation; Pulsars: observations

Indexed keywords

EXTRAGALACTIC SOURCES; GALACTIC MAGNETIC FIELDS; HIGH LATITUDES; MICROWAVE BACKGROUND; MILKY WAYS; PULSARS: OBSERVATIONS; SOLAR NEIGHBOURHOOD; STAR FORMATIONS; ULTRA HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC RAYS;

COSMIC RAY MEASUREMENT; GALAXIES; POLARIZATION;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 84860715347     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-011-9860-2     Document Type: Review

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