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Magnetic field reversal in the turbulent environment around a repeating fast radio burst
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- arXiv, 2022.
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Abstract
- Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, intense flashes of radio waves from unidentified extragalactic sources. Polarized FRBs originate in highly magnetized environments. We report observations of the repeating FRB 20190520B spanning seventeen months , which show its amount of Faraday rotation is highly variable and twice changes its sign. The FRB also depolarizes below radio frequencies around 1 to 3 GHz. We interpret these properties as due to change in the parallel component of the integrated magnetic field along the line-of-sight, including reversals. This could result from propagation through a turbulent, magnetized screen of plasma located between $10^{-5}$ to 100 parsecs of the FRB source. This is consistent with the bursts passing through the stellar wind of a binary companion of the FRB source.<br />Comment: arXiv:2203.08151 has been merged into this
- Subjects :
- High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
Multidisciplinary
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
FOS: Physical sciences
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4f574e1ae9cf135eec7b7c40b497535e
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2202.11112