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With the aim of characterizing the dynamical processes involved in the formation of young protostars, we present high angular resolution ALMA dust polarization observations of the Class 0 protostellar cores Serpens SMM1, Emb 8(N), and Emb…

High-resolution K band imaging polarimetry of the beta Pic dust disk has been conducted with adaptive optics and a coronagraph using the Subaru 8.2-m telescope. Polarization of ~10 % is detected out to r ~ 120 AU with a centro-symmetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Motohide Tamura , Misato Fukagawa , Hiroshi Kimura , Tetsuo Yamamoto , Hiroshi Suto , Lyu Abe

We examined dust polarisation within the planetary nebula (PN) K 3-35 using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA). This investigation aimed to identify and trace the magnetic field within the PN, as it potentially plays a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-24 L. Sabin , Q. Zhang , L. F. Miranda , M. A. Gómez-Muñoz

We investigate high resolution imaging polarimetry of HD 169142 taken in the R' and I' bands with the SPHERE/ZIMPOL instrument for an accurate quantitative measurement of the radiation scattered by the circumstellar disk. We observe a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-10 C. Tschudi , H. M. Schmid

Dust particles are the building blocks from which planetary bodies are made. A major goal of the studies of planet-forming disks is to constrain the properties of dust particles and aggregates in order to trace their origin, structure, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Christian Ginski , Ryo Tazaki , Carsten Dominik , Tomas Stolker

Debris discs are typically revealed through excess emission at infrared wavelengths. Most discs exhibit excess at mid- and far-infrared wavelengths, analogous to the solar system's Asteroid and Edgeworth-Kuiper belts. Recently, stars with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 J. P. Marshall , D. V. Cotton , K. Bott , S. Ertel , G. M. Kennedy , M. C. Wyatt , C. del Burgo , O. Absil , J. Bailey , L. Kedziora-Chudczer

Planck results have revealed that the electric dipole emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is the most reliable explanation for anomalous microwave emission that interferes with cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Thiem Hoang , A. Lazarian , P. G. Martin

The dust in protoplanetary disks is an important ingredient in planet formation and can be investigated with model simulations and quantitative imaging polarimetry of the scattered stellar light. This study explores circumstellar disks with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 J. Ma , H. M. Schmid

We are motivated by the recent measurements of dust opacity indices beta around young stellar objects (YSOs), which suggest that efficient grain growth may have occurred earlier than the Class I stage. The present work makes use of abundant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Jennifer I-Hsiu Li , Hauyu Baobab Liu , Yasuhiro Hasegawa , Naomi Hirano

Grain alignment by radiative torques (RATs) has been extensively studied for various environment conditions, including interstellar medium, dense molecular clouds, and accretion disks, thanks to significant progress in observational,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Thiem Hoang , A. Lazarian

Hot accretion disks around massive protostars provide a unique opportunity to study ice-free silicate grains that cannot be investigated in protoplanetary disks. We conduct a self-consistent investigation into grain-size evolution and its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Ryota Yamamuro , Kei E. I. Tanaka , Satoshi Okuzumi

It is well known that aligned, aspherical dust grains emit polarized radiation and that the degree of polarization depends on the angle $\psi$ between the interstellar magnetic field and the line of sight. However, anisotropy of the dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Brandon S. Hensley , Cheng Zhang , James J. Bock

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

Millimeter and sub-millimeter observations of continuum linear dust polarization provide insight into dust grain growth in protoplanetary disks, which are the progenitors of planetary systems. We present the results of the first survey of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-17 Rachel E. Harrison , Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin , Leslie W. Looney , Zhi-Yun Li , Haifeng Yang , Ian Stephens , Manuel Fernández-López

Context. Dust polarization observations of the massive protocluster G31.41+0.31 carried out at ~1'' (~3750 au) resolution with the SMA at 870 microm have revealed one of the clearest examples to date of an hourglass-shaped magnetic field…

We present a statistical analysis of the interstellar medium (ISM) polarization from the largest compilation available of starlight data, which comprises ~ 5500 stars. The measured correlation between the mean polarization degree and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Pablo Fosalba , Alex Lazarian , Simon Prunet , Jan A. Tauber

We present our observational results of the 0.87 mm polarized dust emission in the Class 0 protostar B335 obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at a 0.2" (20 au) resolution. We compared our data at 0.87 mm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Hsi-Wei Yen , Bo Zhao , Patrick Koch , Ruben Krasnopolsky , Zhi-Yun Li , Nagayoshi Ohashi , Hsien Shang , Shigehisa Takakuwa , Ya-Wen Tang

We have investigated the grain alignment and dust properties towards the direction of the cluster NGC 2345 using the multi-band optical polarimetric observations. For the majority of the stars, the observed polarization is found to be due…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-01 Sadhana Singh , Jeewan C. Pandey , Thiem Hoang

If aspherical dust grains are immersed in an anisotropic radiation field, their temperature depends on the cross-sections projected in the direction of the anisotropy.It was shown that the temperature difference produces polarized thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Takashi Onaka

We present the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of linearly polarized 1.1 mm continuum emission at $\sim$0.14" (55 au) resolution and CO ($J$=2$-$1) emission at $\sim$1.5" (590 au) resolution towards one…