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66 4. The magneto-ionic medium around 3C 449 (a) (c) (b) (d) Figure 4.11: Comparison between observed and synthetic profiles of rms and mean Faraday rotation at resolutions of 5.5 arcsec (a and b) and 1.25 arcsec (c and d). The synthetic profiles are derived from the best-fitting model withΛ max = 65 kpc. The black points represent the data with vertical bars corresponding to the rms fitting error. (a) and (c): Profiles ofσ RM . The magenta crosses represent the mean values from 35 simulations at 5.5-arcsec resolution, and the vertical bars are the rms scatter in these profiles due to sampling. (b) and (d): Profiles of〈RM〉 derived from single example realizations at 5.5 and 1.25-arcsec resolutions. scale. The model withΛ max =65 kpc gives the best representation of the data. The fit is within the estimated errors except for a marginal discrepancy at the very largest (and therefore poorly sampled) separations. That withΛ max =20 kpc is inconsistent with the observed pseudo-structure function for any separation> ∼ 20 arcsec (≃6 kpc) where the sampling is still very good, and is firmly excluded. The model withΛ max =205 kpc has slightly, but significantly too much power on large scales. I emphasize that such estimate of the outer scale of the RM fluctuations is essentially independent of the functional form assumed for the variation of field strength with radius in the central region, which affects the structure function only for small separations. The results are almost identical if I fit the field-strength variation with either the profile of Eq. 4.5 (withη≈0) or that of Eq. 4.6. As for the structure functions of individual regions, the pseudo-structure function at large 66
4.7. Summary and comparison with other sources 67 separations is clearly affected by poor sampling: this increases the errors, but does not produce any bias in the derived values. At large radii, however, the integral in Eq. 4.7 becomes small, so the noise on the RM image is amplified. This is a potential source of error, and I therefore checked the results using numerical simulations. I calculated the mean and rms structure functions for sets of realizations of RM images generated with theFARADAY code for different values ofΛ max . These structure functions are plotted in Figs. 4.12(b) and (c). The main difference between the model structure functions derived from simulations and the pseudo-structure functions described earlier is that the former show a steep decline in power on large scales in place of a plateau. This occurs because the smooth fall-off in density and magnetic field strength with distance from the nucleus suppresses the fluctuations in RM on large scales. The results of the simulations confirm the analysis using the pseudo-structure function. The mean model structure function withΛ max = 65 kpc again fits the data very well, except for a marginal discrepancy at the largest scales. In view of the deviations from spherical symmetry on large scales evident in the X-ray emission surrounding 3C 449 (Fig. 4.1), I do not regard this as a significant effect. In order to check that the best-fitting density and field model also reproduces the data at small separations, I repeated the analysis at 1.25-arcsec resolution. The observed pseudo-structure function is shown in Fig. 4.12(d), together with the the predictions for the BPL power spectrum withΛ max = 205, 65 and 20 kpc. The observed structure function is compared with the mean from 35 simulations withΛ max = 65 kpc in Fig. 4.12(e). In both cases, the agreement forΛ max = 65 kpc is excellent. In Fig. 4.13, example realizations of this model with the best-fitting field variation are shown for resolutions of 1.25 and 5.5 arcsec alongside the observed RM images. 4.7 Summary and comparison with other sources 4.7.1 Summary In this work I have studied the structure of the magnetic field associated with the ionized medium around the radio galaxy 3C 449. I have analysed images of linearly polarized emission with resolutions of 1.25 arcsec and 5.5 arcsec FHWM at seven frequencies between 1.365 and 8.385 GHz, and produced images of degree of polarization and rotation measure. The RM images at both the angular resolutions show patchy and random structures. In order to study the spatial statistics of the magnetic field, I used a structure-function analysis and performed two- and threedimensional RM simulations. I can summarize the results as follows. 67
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Contents Abstract i 1 Physics of ra
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Chapter 1 Physics of radio galaxies
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1.3. Radio galaxies 7 FR II sources
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144 BIBLIOGRAPHY Bîrzan, L., Raffe
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146 BIBLIOGRAPHY Ensslin, T.A. & Go
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148 BIBLIOGRAPHY Jeltema, T.E. & Pr
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150 BIBLIOGRAPHY Owen, F.N., 1989,
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