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Fig. 8

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Variation with galacto-centric radius of the equipartition magnetic field strengths Btot, Bran, and Bord averaged in 2 kpc-wide rings in the plane of M 101. There is a change in slope near R=16 kpc. Dashed lines represent the exponential fits yielding the radial scale lengths given in Table 4.

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