Tracing interstellar magnetic field using velocity gradient technique: Application to Atomic Hydrogen data
arXiv:1701.07944 · doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aa6255
Abstract
The advancement of our understanding of MHD turbulence opens ways to develop new techniques to probe magnetic fields. In MHD turbulence, the velocity gradients are expected to be perpendicular to magnetic fields and this fact was used by Gonsalvez-Casanova & Lazarian to introduce a new technique to trace magnetic fields using velocity centroid gradients. The latter can be obtained from spectroscopic observations. We apply the technique to GALFA HI survey data and compare the directions of magnetic fields obtained with our technique with the direction of magnetic fields obtained using PLANCK polarization. We find excellent correspondence between the two ways of magnetic field tracing, which is obvious via visual comparison and through measuring of the statistics of magnetic field fluctuations obtained with the polarization data and our technique. This suggests that the velocity centroid gradients can provide a reliable way of measuring of the foreground magnetic field fluctuations and thus provide a new way of separating foreground and CMB polarization signals.
7 pages, 5 figures, submitted to ApJL
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