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Pulsars provide unique probes for the {\it large-scale} interstellar magnetic field in the Galactic disk. The Parkes multibeam pulsar survey has discovered many distant pulsars which enables us for the first time to explore the magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester , G. J. Qiao , A. G. Lyne

The mechanisms causing millimeter-wave polarization in protoplanetary disks are under debate. To disentangle the polarization mechanisms, we observe the protoplanetary disk around HL Tau at 3.1 mm with the Atacama Large…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Akimasa Kataoka , Takashi Tsukagoshi , Adriana Pohl , Takayuki Muto , Hiroshi Nagai , Ian W. Stephens , Kohji Tomisaka , Munetake Momose

We report high angular resolution observations of linearly polarized dust emission towards the Class 0 young stellar object (YSO) NGC1333 IRAS4A (hereafter, IRAS4A) using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) at K (11.5-16.7 mm), Ka…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Chia-Lin Ko , Hauyu Baobab Liu , Shih-Ping Lai , Tao-Chung Ching , Ramprasad Rao , Josep M. Girart

Context. The protoplanetary disk around the star HD 100546 displays prominent substructures in the form of two concentric rings. Recent observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed these features…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Max Ackermann Pyerin , Timmy N. Delage , Nicolás T. Kurtovic , Matías Gárate , Thomas Henning , Paola Pinilla

Variability of millimetre wavelength continuum emission from Class II protoplanetary disks is extremely rare, and when detected it is usually interpreted as originating from non-thermal emission mechanisms that relate to the host star…

Through the magnetic braking and the launching of protostellar outflows, magnetic fields play a major role in the regulation of angular momentum in star formation, which directly impacts the formation and evolution of protoplanetary disks…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-04 Pierre Marchand , Kengo Tomida , Kei Tanaka , Benoît Commerçon , Gilles Chabrier

Millimeter-wavelength polarization measurements offer a promising method for probing the geometry of magnetic fields in circumstellar disks. Single dish observations and theoretical work have hinted that magnetic field geometries might be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. M. Hughes , C. L. H. Hull , D. J. Wilner , R. L. Plambeck

To assess the potential role of magnetic fields in regulating the envelope rotation and the fragmentation of Class 0 protostars, we carried out observations of the dust polarized emission at 0.87 mm with the SMA, in the envelopes of a large…

We present the first observations of magnetic fields in pre-planetary nebulae (PPNe) made with the POL-2 polarimeter on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). We observed the PPNe CRL 618 and OH231.8+4.2 in 850 $\mu$m polarized light. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-30 Kate Pattle , Giorgio Savini

The statistics of discovered exoplanets suggest that planets form efficiently. However, there are fundamental unsolved problems, such as excessive inward drift of particles in protoplanetary disks during planet formation. Recent theories…

Context: The importance of magnetic fields at the onset of star formation related to the early fragmentation and collapse processes is largely unexplored today. Aims: We want to understand the magnetic field properties at the earliest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 H. Beuther , J. Soler , W. Vlemmings , H. Linz , Th. Henning , R. Kuiper , R. Rao , R. Smith , T. Sakai , K. Johnston , A. Walsh , S. Feng

We used the Submillimeter Array (SMA) to observe the thermal polarized dust emission from the protostellar source NGC 2024 FIR 5. The polarized emission outlines a partial hourglass morphology for the plane-of-sky component of the core…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Felipe de O. Alves , Josep M. Girart , Shih-Ping Lai , Ramprasad Rao , Qizhou Zhang

Polarization is a unique tool to study the properties of dust grains of protoplanetary disks and detail the initial conditions of planet formation. Polarization around HL Tau was previously imaged using the Atacama Large…

We report the direct detection of a binary/disk system towards the high-mass (proto)stellar object IRAS20126+4104 at infrared wavengths. The presence of a multiple system had been indicated by the precession of the outflow and the double…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. K. Sridharan , S. J. Williams , G. A. Fuller

We report the ALMA observation of the Class I binary protostellar system L1551 NE in the 0.9-mm continuum, C18O (3-2), and 13CO (3-2) lines at a ~1.6 times higher resolution and a ~6 times higher sensitivity than those of our previous SMA…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Shigehisa Takakuwa , Masao Saito , Kazuya Saigo , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Jeremy Lim , Tomoyuki Hanawa , Paul T. P. Ho

We present VLA observations toward the Class 0 protostar L1157 MMS at 6.8 mm and 9 mm with a resolution of ~0.04" (14 au). We detect two sources within L1157 MMS and interpret these sources as a binary protostar with a separation of ~16 au.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 John J. Tobin , Erin G. Cox , Leslie W. Looney

The multiple protostellar system L1551 IRS5 exhibits a large-scale bipolar molecular outflow. We have studied this outflow within ~4000 AU of its driving source(s) with the SubMillimeter Array. Our CO(2-1) image at ~4" (~560 AU) resolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Po-Feng Wu , Shigehisa Takakuwa , Jeremy Lim

Magnetic fields play a fundamental role in the formation of protostellar winds. In the magneto-centrifugal models, poloidal magnetic fields launch winds from accretion disks, and fast-rotating gas twists the fields into toroidal geometry…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Tao-Chung Ching , Zhi-Yun Li , Qizhou Zhang , Josep Miquel Girart , Shih-Ping Lai , Chin-Fei Lee , Di Li , Ramprasad Rao , Emmanuel Momjian

We present a statistical study on the orientation of outflows with respect to large-scale filaments and the magnetic fields. Although filaments are widely observed toward Galactic star-forming regions, the exact role of filaments in star…