Probing magnetic turbulence by synchrotron polarimetry: statistics and structure of magnetic fields from Stokes correlators

2009/03/31 by A. Waelkens, A. A. Schekochihin, T. A. Ensslin +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Computational physics #Faraday effect #Isotropy #Magnetic energy #Magnetic field #Magnetization #Optics #Physics #Polarimetry #Quantum mechanics #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #Scattering #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #Spectral density #Statistics #Stokes parameters #Synchrotron radiation #astro-ph.GA

paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15231.x

published as Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 398: 1970,2009 · Published on MNRAS 2009

openalex publication_date 2009/08/06 · arxiv created 2010/03/25 · arxiv updated 2015/05/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Magnetized plasma is present almost everywhere in the observable Universe, from stars and accretion disks to the interstellar and the intracluster medium (respectively ISM and ICM). A large fraction of this magnetized plasma is in a turbulent state. Understanding

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