ROLE OF THE DISK-HALO INTERACTION IN GALAXY EVOLUTION: OUTFLOWS VS INFALL?
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2012年
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56卷
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D O I:
10.1051/eas/1256014
中图分类号:
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号:
0704 ;
摘要:
In a recent study we have used a large sample of extragalactic radio sources to investigate the redshift evolution of the Rotation Measure (RM) of polarized quasars up to z approximate to 3.0. We found that the dispersion in the RM distribution of quasars increases at higher red-shifts and hypothesized that MgII intervening systems were responsible for the observed trend. To test this hypothesis, we have recently obtained high-resolution UVES/VLT spectra for 76 quasars in our sample and in the redshift range 0.6 < z < 2.0. We found a clear correlation between the presence of strong MgII systems and large RMs. This implies that normal galaxies at z approximate to 1 already had large-scale magnetic fields comparable to those seen today.