银河系磁场的研究

Magnetic Fields of Our Milky Way Galaxy

太阳是银河系中千亿颗恒星之一。银河系是我们在宇宙中的家园。人类对银河系的了解还非常初步。我们花了十几年时间研究银河系磁场,使人类对银河系磁场从局域认知发展到整体结构图像。本文介绍我们探索银河系磁场的历程和目前的进展情况。

The Milky Way is our home galaxy in the universe. However, human beings do not know much of our home galaxy about its structure and physical properties. The author and his cooperators have spent a decade to reveal the large-scale of magnetic fields of our Milky Way galaxy. They achieved a significant progress. Originally only knowledge of magnetic fields in the local galactic area of a few thousand light-years was there. Now, a global magnetic field structure of our Milky Way, a scale of tens of thousand light-years, is known. Here they report their efforts and results.