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A radio continuum survey at medium Galactic latitudes with the 100-m telescope of the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie is being carried out at a center frequency of 1.4 GHz in total power and linear polarization. We present polarization and depolarization structures detected at medium latititudes with no corresponding observable structure in total power emission. Existence of such kind of polarization structures imply that the emission, due to the Faraday modulation of the Galactic synchrotron foreground, occurs in thin sheetlike regions. This phenomenon is a sign for fluctuating local magnetic field.
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Uyamker, B., Fürst, E., Reich, W., Reich, P., Wielebinski, R. (1998). The local magnetic field in the milky way. In: Breitschwerdt, D., Freyberg, M., Trümper, J. (eds) The Local Bubble and Beyond Lyman-Spitzer-Colloquium. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 506. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0104726
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