Speaker
Luca Del Zanna
Description
The magnetized plasma of high-energy astrophysical sources is often characterised by non-thermal synchrotron emission, and the (linear) polarization degree is highly affected by the presence of stochastic fluctuations. Polarimetric satellites are nowadays able to obtain detailed measures in different locations of extended sources, especially of Pulsar Wind Nebulae in the X-rays. In this work we study the properties of MHD turbulence in relativistically hot sources by means of numerical simulations and provide recipes for synthetic synchrotron emission and its polarimetric properties, to compare with observations.
