Measurement of a Magnetic Field in a Leading Arm High Velocity Cloud
arXiv:1009.5849 · doi:10.1088/0004-637X/725/1/275
Abstract
Using a recent catalogue of extragalactic Faraday rotation derived from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey we have found an agreement between Faraday rotation structure and the HI emission structure of a High Velocity Cloud (HVC) associated with the Leading Arm of the Magellanic System. We suggest that this morphological agreement is indicative of Faraday rotation through the HVC. Under this assumption we have used 48 rotation measures through the HVC, together with estimates of the electron column density from H-α measurements and QSO absorption lines to estimate a strength for the line-of-sight component of the coherent magnetic field in the HVC of <B_{||}> > 6 {\rm μG}B_{r}/B_{||} < 0.8$, which suggests that the random field does not dominate over the coherent field as it does in the Magellanic Clouds from which this HVC likely originates.
17 pages, 3 figures
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