Despite the Radio Arc non-thermal filaments (NTFs) being discovered 30 years ago, their origin remain poorly understood. The Radio Arc NTFs have an unusually flat spectrum in the centimeter to millimeter spectrum with a predicted, though poorly constrained, turn-over between 30-200 GHz. With the recently upgraded wide-band capabilities of the VLA, we conducted a multi-frequency polarimetric study of the Radio Arc region. With observations at a set of low radio frequencies (continuous coverage over 2-6 GHz & 10-12 GHz), we imaged both the total and polarized intensity distributions at high angular resolution (<1"). Presented here are the preliminary results from four observations spanning May 2013 to February 2014 using the DnC, CnB, B & BnA array configurations. This study has produced the deepest continuum intensity images of the Radio Arc region to date, with a sensitivity an order of magnitude greater than previous surveys, and resulted in the detection of new structure and compact emission sources. These observations will serve as a pilot polarization study for larger, more complete polarimetric surveys of the Galactic center region.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uiowa.edu/oai:ir.uiowa.edu:etd-5290 |
| Date | 01 May 2014 |
| Creators | Toomey, James, IV |
| Contributors | Lang, Cornelia C. |
| Publisher | University of Iowa |
| Source Sets | University of Iowa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Theses and Dissertations |
| Rights | Copyright © 2014 James Toomey |
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