Exploring the intermittency of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence by synchrotron polarization radiation
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| author | Wang, Ru-Yue Zhang, Jian-Fu Lu, Fang Xiang, Fu-Yuan |
| author_facet | Wang, Ru-Yue Zhang, Jian-Fu Lu, Fang Xiang, Fu-Yuan |
| contents | Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence plays a critical role in many key astrophysical processes such as star formation, acceleration of cosmic rays, and heat conduction. However, its properties are still poorly understood. We explore how to extract the intermittency of compressible MHD turbulence from the synthetic and real observations. The three statistical methods, namely the probability distribution function, kurtosis, and scaling exponent of the multi-order structure function, are used to reveal the intermittency of MHD turbulence. Our numerical results demonstrate that: (1) the synchrotron polarization intensity statistics can be used to probe the intermittency of magnetic turbulence, by which we can distinguish different turbulence regimes; (2) the intermittency of MHD turbulence is dominated by the slow mode in the sub-Alfv{é}nic turbulence regime; (3) the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) at the low latitude region corresponds to the sub-Alfvénic and supersonic turbulence regime. We have successfully measured the intermittency of the Galactic ISM from the synthetic and realistic observations. |
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| spellingShingle | Exploring the intermittency of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence by synchrotron polarization radiation Wang, Ru-Yue Zhang, Jian-Fu Lu, Fang Xiang, Fu-Yuan High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence plays a critical role in many key astrophysical processes such as star formation, acceleration of cosmic rays, and heat conduction. However, its properties are still poorly understood. We explore how to extract the intermittency of compressible MHD turbulence from the synthetic and real observations. The three statistical methods, namely the probability distribution function, kurtosis, and scaling exponent of the multi-order structure function, are used to reveal the intermittency of MHD turbulence. Our numerical results demonstrate that: (1) the synchrotron polarization intensity statistics can be used to probe the intermittency of magnetic turbulence, by which we can distinguish different turbulence regimes; (2) the intermittency of MHD turbulence is dominated by the slow mode in the sub-Alfv{é}nic turbulence regime; (3) the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) at the low latitude region corresponds to the sub-Alfvénic and supersonic turbulence regime. We have successfully measured the intermittency of the Galactic ISM from the synthetic and realistic observations. |
| title | Exploring the intermittency of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence by synchrotron polarization radiation |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05739 |