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Estimation of Magnetic Fields from Synchrotron Emission: Numerical Tests

  • Authors: Nora B. Linzer, Lucia Armillotta, Eve C. Ostriker, Eliot Quataert

Nora B. Linzer et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 996 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

The blue distribution represents a two-dimensional histogram of the predicted magnetic field strength, ﹩{B}_{{\rm{pred,}}\langle {e}_{{\rm{c}}}\rangle }﹩ (Equation (17)), compared to the simulated, mass-averaged magnetic field strength, Bavg across all R8 snapshots. The red points represent the values of ﹩{B}_{{\rm{pred,}}\langle {e}_{{\rm{c}}}\rangle }﹩ and Bavg averaged over each kiloparsec-scale simulation snapshot individually. The black, dashed line represents Bpred = Bavg. The best-fit power law to this distribution is included as a purple line given by ﹩{B}_{{\rm{pred}}}\propto {B}_{{\rm{avg}}}^{0.66}﹩. This improves over the traditional equipartition estimate at small scales (Figure 3).

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