We discuss an extension to the Chandrasekhar-Fermi method for the evaluation of the mean magnetic field strength in molecular clouds to cases where the spatial orientation of the field is known. We apply the results to M17, using previously published data.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0410316,
title = {Evaluating the Magnetic Field Strength in Molecular Clouds},
author = {Martin Houde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0410316},
year = {2009}
}
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10 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in the ApJ Letters