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CHANG-ES. XXXVIII. A Thin Radio Halo Shaped by Slow Cosmic-Ray Transport in the Quiescent Galaxy NGC 4565

  • Authors: Jianghui Xu, Jiang-Tao Li, Guilin Liu, Luan Luan, Volker Heesen, Rainer Beck, Judith Irwin, Q. Daniel Wang, Michael Stein, Li-Yuan Lu, Yang Yang, Jeroen Stil, Jayanne English, Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar

Jianghui Xu et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1001 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

Polarization properties of NGC 4565 derived from RM synthesis. Left panel: map of the polarized intensity. Right panel: RM map, with the Galactic foreground contribution subtracted. The intrinsic magnetic field orientations, corrected for Faraday rotation, are shown as black lines. The RM values and field lines are blanked for polarized intensities below 5σ, where σ = 3.12 μJy beam−1. In both panels, total intensity contours from Figure 1(b) at levels of 3, 24, and 192σ are overlaid to outline the galaxy’s structure. The 15″ synthesized beam is displayed in the bottom-right corner.

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