Undergraduate-Led High-Resolution MHD Validation of Lazarian–Pogosyan Faraday Turbulence Theory

Leveraging a fully in-house pipeline I created, I carry out the first high-resolution, parameter-controlled simulation campaign that quantitatively stress-tests the Lazarian & Pogosyan 2016 (LP16) analytic model for Faraday-rotated synchrotron turbulence. Compressible, sub- to trans-Alfvénic MHD cubes up to 512³ are ray-traced to generate Stokes Q,U mosaics across 0.1–2 m. From them I extract the complex correlator 〈P P*〉, the angle-structure function Dφ(R, λ), and the saturation scale R_sat(λ). The study unambiguously verifies the three cornerstone LP16 scalings: λ⁴ damping of correlations, Kolmogorov inertial-range slope D_φ ∝ R^5/3, and the π²/6 plateau with Rsat ∝ λ^4/3. I further provide a resolved lookup grid that observers can apply directly to LOFAR, MWA and early SKA data, effectively bridging theory, simulation and observation. All coding, analysis and visualisation were executed by me as an undergraduate principal investigator, evidencing independent research capacity and cross-disciplinary plasma expertise.