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Star formation primarily occurs in filaments where magnetic fields are expected to be dynamically important. The largest and densest filaments trace spiral structure within galaxies. Over a dozen of these dense ($\sim$10$^4$\,cm$^{-3}$) and…

We present the analysis of the circular polarization, due to Zeeman splitting, of the water masers around a sample of late-type stars to determine the magnetic fields in their circumstellar envelopes. The magnetic field strengths in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. H. T. Vlemmings , H. J. van Langevelde , P. J. Diamond

About 5% of upper main sequence stars are permeated by a strong magnetic field, the origin of which is still matter of debate. With this work we provide observational material to study how magnetic fields change with the evolution of stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bagnulo , J. D. Landstreet , E. Mason , V. Andretta , J. Silaj , G. A. Wade

Spectropolarimetic campaigns have established that large-scale magnetic fields are present at the surfaces of approximately 10% of massive dwarf stars. However, there is a dearth of magnetic field measurements for their deep interiors.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 D. M. Bowman , D. Lecoanet , T. Van Reeth

Despite their importance in stellar evolution, little is known about magnetic fields in the interior of stars. The recent seismic detection of magnetic fields in the core of several red giant stars has given measurements of their strength…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 S. Deheuvels , G. Li , J. Ballot , F. Lignières

Magnetic fields play a crucial role in star formation, yet tracing them becomes particularly challenging, especially in the presence of outflow feedback in protostellar systems. We targeted the star-forming region L1551, notable for its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-26 Mingrui Liu , Yue Hu , Alex Lazarian

Magnetic fields are generally expected to increase the characteristic mass of stars formed in stellar clusters, because they tend to increase the effective Jeans mass. We test this expectation using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhi-Yun Li , Peng Wang , Tom Abel , Fumitaka Nakamura

Aims. In this paper, we aim to measure the strength of the surface magnetic fields for a sample of five intermediate mass T Tauri stars and one low mass T Tauri star from late-F to mid-K spectral types. While magnetic fields of T Tauri…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 A. Lavail , O. Kochukhov , G. A. J. Hussain , E. Alecian , G. J. Herczeg , C. Johns-Krull

Abridged. A large fraction of stars are found in binary systems. It is therefore important for our understanding of the star formation process, to investigate the fragmentation of dense molecular cores. We study the influence of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Hennebelle , R. Teyssier

Zeeman-Doppler imaging studies have revealed the complexity of the large-scale magnetic fields of accreting pre-main-sequence stars. All have multipolar magnetic fields with the octupole component being the dominant field mode for many of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-02 Scott G. Gregory , Jean-François Donati , Gaitee A. J. Hussain

Our knowledge of the presence and the strength of magnetic fields in massive O and B-type stars remains very poor. Recent observations indicate that the presence of magnetic fields is responsible for a wide range of phenomena observed in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-24 S. Hubrig , M. Schoeller , I. Ilyin , G. Lo Curto

We investigate the effects of magnetic fields and radiative protostellar feedback on the star formation process using self-gravitating radiation magnetohydrodynamical calculations. We present results from a series of calculations of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daniel J. Price , Matthew R. Bate

We report the first detection of circular polarization in 4.7 GHz excited OH masers in star-forming regions made using full Stokes measurements with the Green Bank 100m telescope. The Zeeman shift between the two circular components…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-08 Derck P Smits , Paul Fallon

We present a large-scale view of the magnetic field in the central 2deg * 2deg region of our Galaxy. The polarization of point sources has been measured in the J, H, and Ks bands using the near-infrared polarimetric camera SIRPOL on the 1.4…

Magnetic fields play important roles in many astrophysical processes. However, there is no universal diagnostic for the magnetic fields in the interstellar medium (ISM) and each magnetic tracer has its limitation. Any new detection method…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-19 Heshou Zhang , Huirong Yan

We report the detection of polarized emission in the vicinity of the Galactic center for 158 positions within eight different pointings of the Hertz polarimeter operating on the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. These pointings include…

We present full-polarization VLBA maps of the ground-state, main-line, 2 Pi 3/2, J = 3/2 OH masers in 18 Galactic massive star-forming regions. This is the first large polarization survey of interstellar hydroxyl masers at VLBI resolution.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vincent L. Fish , Mark J. Reid , Alice L. Argon , Xing-Wu Zheng

The first polarimetric images of the OMC-3 region of the Orion A filamentary molecular cloud are presented. Using the JCMT, we have detected polarized thermal emission at 850 microns from dust along a 6' length of the dense filament. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Brenda C. Matthews , Christine D. Wilson