New constraints on the galactic halo magnetic field using rotation measures of extragalactic sources toward the outer galaxy

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 755, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Mao, S A ^a,b,c,d   McClure Griffiths, N M ^b   Gaensler, B M ^e   Brown, J C ^f   Van Eck, C L ^f   Haverkorn, M ^g   Kronberg, P P ^h,i   Stil, J M ^f   Shukurov, A ^j   Taylor, A R ^f  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^g RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^h LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^j NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Galaxy: halo; ISM: magnetic fields; polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864494661     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/755/1/21     Document Type: Article

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