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We present 0.25 arcsec resolution (35 au) ALMA 1.3 mm dust polarization observations for 37 young stellar objects (YSOs) in the Ophiuchus cloud. These data encompass all the embedded protostars in the cloud and several Flat and Class II…

Interstellar polarization in the optical/infrared has long been known to be due to asymmetrical dust grains aligned with the magnetic field and can potentially provide a resource effective way to probe both the topology and strength of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-08-23 B. -G. Andersson

The alignment of dust grains with the ambient magnetic field produces polarization of starlight as well as thermal dust emission. Using the archival SOFIA/HAWC+ polarimetric data observed toward $\rho$ Ophiuchus (Oph) A cloud hosted by a B…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-25 Le Ngoc Tram , Thiem Hoang , Hyeseung Lee , Fabio Santos , Archana Soam , Pierre Lesaffre , Antoine Gusdorf , William Reach

Aligned interstellar grains produce polarized extinction (observed at wavelengths from the far-ultraviolet to the mid-infrared), and polarized thermal emission (observed at far-infrared and submm wavelengths). The grains must be quite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-07 B. T. Draine

Alignment of dust grains in astrophysical environments results in the polarization of starlight as well as the polarization of radiation emitted by dust. We demonstrate the advances in grain alignment theory allow the use of linear and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 A Lazarian , Thiem Hoang

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

High spatial resolution CO observations of mid-inclination (30-75{\deg}) protoplanetary disks offer an opportunity to study the vertical distribution of CO emission and temperature. The asymmetry of line emission relative to the disk major…

There is evidence that protoplanetary disks--including the protosolar one--contain crystalline dust grains on spatial scales where the dust temperature is lower than the threshold value for their formation through thermal annealing of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Steven Giacalone , Seth Teitler , Arieh Königl , Sebastiaan Krijt , Fred J. Ciesla

We present high-sensitivity ($\sigma_I\sim0.2-0.5$ mJy, $\sigma_{QU}\sim0.05$ mJy), high-resolution (0.12-0.2 arcsec) observations of polarized 872 $\mu$m dust emission from the young multiple system VLA 1623 in $\rho$ Ophiuchus and the…

We present a detailed analysis of the high-angular resolution (0.''037, corresponding to 5 au) observations of the 1.25 mm continuum and $^{12}$CO $2-1$ emission from the disk around the T Tauri star AS 209. AS 209 hosts one of the most…

The polarimetric observations on the protoplanetary disk around HL Tau have shown the scattering-induced polarization at ALMA Band 7, which indicates that the maximum dust size is $\sim 100~{\rm \mu m}$, while the Spectral Energy…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Takahiro Ueda , Akimasa Kataoka , Shangjia Zhang , Zhaohuan Zhu , Carlos Carrasco-González , Anibal Sierra

Characterizing the physical properties of dust grains in a protoplanetary disk is critical to comprehending the planet formation process. Our study presents ALMA high-resolution observations of the young protoplanetary disk around DG Tau at…

Millimeter observations of CO isotopologues are often used to make inferences about protoplanetary disk gas density and temperature structures. The accuracy of these estimates depends on our understanding of CO freezeout and desorption from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Jane Huang , Karin I. Oberg , Sean M. Andrews

We present the first resolved observations of the 1.3mm polarized emission from the disk-like structure surrounding the high-mass protostar Cepheus A HW2. These CARMA data partially resolve the dust polarization, suggesting an uniform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 M. Fernández-López , I. W. Stephens , J. M. Girart , L. Looney , S. Curiel , D. Segura-Cox , C. Eswaraiah , S. -P. Lai

We present integrated polarization properties of nearby spiral galaxies at 4.8 GHz, and models for the integrated polarization of spiral galaxy disks as a function of inclination. Spiral galaxies in our sample have observed integrated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jeroen M. Stil , Marita Krause , Rainer Beck , A. Russell Taylor

The properties of polarization in scattered light by aligned ellipsoidal grains are investigated with the Fredholm integral equation method (FIM) and the T-matrix method (Tmat), and the results are applied to the observed circular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-15 Masafumi Matsumura , Pierre Bastien

The alignment of interstellar dust grains with magnetic fields provides a key method for measuring the strength and morphology of the fields. In turn, this provides a means to study the role of magnetic fields from diffuse gas to dense…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-09 John E. Vaillancourt , B-G Andersson

HD 142527 is a pre-transition disk with strong evidence for on-going planet formation. Recent observations show a disrupted disk with spiral arms, a dust-depleted inner cavity and the possible presence of gas streams driving gas from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 H. Canovas , F. Menard , A. Hales , A. Jordan , M. R. Schreiber , S. Casassus , T. M. Gledhill , C. Pinte

Context. Submillimeter Array (SMA) 870 micron polarization observations of the hot molecular core G31.41+0.31 revealed one of the clearest examples up to date of an hourglass-shaped magnetic field morphology in a high-mass star-forming…

Context. Anomalous microwave emission (AME) is a component of interstellar medium emission peaking at 10-60 GHz. Its polarization is both a CMB foreground and a probe of the alignment physics of very small dust grains. Aims. We quantify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-30 Boy Lankhaar