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Table 3

Comparison of the best-fit magnetic fields for four different models discussed in the text.

Uniform A18 L19 LE19
lmax = 6 lmax = 6
0.58 0.60 0.75 0.61
p0 [%] 10.33 11.83 8.17 10.86
[°] (67.9, − 26.4) (67.4, 34.3) (71.0, − 10.9) (72.5, 0.06)
[°] (74.9, 24.2) (69.8, − 6.7) (74.0, 5.8) (76.8, − 15.2)
0.78 0.61 0.91 0.64
0.80 0.71 0.95 0.79

Notes. The “Uniform” model assumes a uniform magnetic field orientation over each Galactic polar cap, “A18” is the spheroid model presented in A18, and “L19” and “LE19” are the models developed in this paper with the shape of theLB shell extracted from the L19 and LE19 3D extinction maps, respectively, each modeled with lmax = 6. The four models were fitted to the Planck PR3 353 GHz data. Listed here are the reduced χ2, the effective polarization fraction, p0, the orientation of the magnetic field averaged over each of the northern and southern polar caps, , and cos2 γ averaged over each polar cap, with γ the angle of the magnetic field to the plane of the sky.

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