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By comparing cumulative linear mass profiles of 12 Gould Belt molecular clouds within 500 pc, we study how the linear mass distributions of molecular clouds vary with the angles between the molecular cloud long axes and the directions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-25 Chi Yan Law , Hua Bai Li , Pokin Leung

We expand our study on the dispersion of polarization angles in molecular clouds. We show how the effect of signal integration through the thickness of the cloud as well as across the area subtended by the telescope beam inherent to dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Martin Houde , John E. Vaillancourt , Roger H. Hildebrand , Shadi Chitsazzadeh , Larry Kirby

Magnetic fields play an important role in the formation and evolution of a galaxy, but it is challenging to measure them by observation. Here we study the Seyfert galaxy NGC 3627's magnetic field orientations measured from the synchrotron…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Mingrui Liu , Yue Hu , A. Lazarian , Siyao Xu , Marian Soida

Pulsar wind nebulae are efficient particle accelerators, and yet the processes at work remain elusive. Self-generated, microturbulence is too weak in relativistic magnetized shocks to accelerate particles over a wide energy range,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Benoît Cerutti , Gwenael Giacinti

We describe a morphological imprint of magnetization found when considering the relative orientation of the magnetic field direction with respect to the density structures in simulated turbulent molecular clouds. This imprint was found…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-08-27 J. D. Soler , P. Hennebelle , P. G. Martin , M. A. Miville-Deschênes , C. B. Netterfield , L. M. Fissel

The breakdown of flux-freezing in molecular clouds and protostellar discs is usually approximated by ambipolar diffusion at low densities or by resistive diffusion at high densities. Here I discuss an intermediate regime in which the Hall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark Wardle

Truncated abstract: The formation of a protostellar disc is a natural outcome during the star formation process. As gas in a molecular cloud core collapses under self-gravity, the angular momentum of the gas will slow its collapse on small…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-18 James Wurster , Zhi-Yun Li

We quantify the effects of magnetic fields, cosmic rays and gas pressure on the rotational velocity of HI gas in the Milky Way, at galactic distances between Rsun and 2Rsun. The magnetic field is modelled by two components; a mainly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , A. Santillan

(abridged) Together with gravity, turbulence, and stellar feedback, magnetic fields (B-fields) are thought to play a critical role in the evolution of molecular clouds and star formation processes. We aim to map the morphology and measure…

We explore the roles of the three competitors, namely, gravity, turbulence, and magnetic fields, in controlling star formation (SF) within dense, massive clumps identified in the ATLASGAL survey. By examining scaling relations, virial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-15 Moses Onyemaechi Asogwa , Seblu Humne Negu , Gemechu Muleta Kumssa , Innocent Okwudili Eya

We report high-angular-resolution measurements of polarized dust emission toward the low-mass protostellar system NGC 1333 IRAS 4A. We show that in this system the observed magnetic field morphology is in agreement with the standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Josep M. Girart , Ramprasad Rao , Daniel P. Marrone

3D Galactic magnetic fields are critical for understanding the interstellar medium, Galactic foreground polarization, and the propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Leveraging recent theoretical insights into anisotropic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-23 Yue Hu

The topological and dynamical features of small scales are studied in the context of decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulent flows using direct numerical simulations. Joint probability density functions (PDFs) of the invariants of gradient…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-15 Vassilios Dallas , Alexandros Alexakis

We construct a magnetic helicity conserving dynamo theory which incorporates a calculated magnetic helicity current. In this model the fluid helicity plays a small role in large scale magnetic field generation. Instead, the dynamo process…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ethan T. Vishniac , Jungyeon Cho

In-situ observations in the Earth's and Saturn's magnetosheaths and in the solar wind reveal the presence of Alfv\'en vortices as intermittent structures in the range of scales from fluid lengths down to few ion lengths. The density and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Dusan Jovanovic , Olga Alexandrova , Milan Maksimovic , Milivoj Belic

Natural dynamos such as planets and stars generate global scale magnetic field despite the inferred presence of small scale turbulence. Such systems are known as large scale dynamos and are typically driven by convection and influenced by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-24 Ming Yan , Michael A. Calkins

We present an analytic derivation of the temporal dependence of the perpendicular transport coefficient of charged particles in magnetostatic turbulence, for times smaller than the time needed to charged particles to travel the turbulence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 F. Fraschetti , J. R. Jokipii

Purpose of this work is study evolution of magnetized rotating filamentary molecular cloud's. We will consider cylindrical symmetric filamentary molecular clouds at the early stage of evolution. For the first time we consider rotation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 P. Aghili , K. Kokabi

Rapidly outflowing cold H-I gas is ubiquitously observed to be co-spatial with a hot phase in galactic winds, yet the ablation time of cold gas by the hot phase should be much shorter than the acceleration time. Previous work showed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-07 Fernando Hidalgo-Pineda , Ryan Jeffrey Farber , Max Gronke

The virial ratio between kinetic and gravitational terms provides key insight into the balance of forces that confine a molecular cloud, but the clumpy and filamentary structures of resolved clouds make it difficult to evaluate this ratio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-17 Ayushi Singh , Christopher D. Matzner , Peter H. Jumper
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