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The magnetic field strength in interstellar clouds can be estimated indirectly by using the spread of dust polarization angles ($\delta \theta$). The method developed by Davis 1951 and by Chandrasekhar and Fermi 1953 (DCF) assumes that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-11 R. Skalidis , J. Sternberg , J. R. Beattie , V. Pavlidou , K. Tassis

Despite the rich observational results on interstellar magnetic fields in star-forming regions, it is still unclear how dynamically significant the magnetic fields are at varying physical scales, because direct measurement of the field…

The mean plane-of-sky magnetic field strength is traditionally obtained from the combination of polarization and spectroscopic data using the Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi (DCF) technique. However, we identify the major problem of the DCF to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 A. Lazarian , Ka Ho Yuen , Dmitri Pogosyan

Angular dispersion functions are typically used to estimate the fluctuations in polarization angle around the mean magnetic field orientation in dense regions, such as molecular clouds. The technique provides accurate turbulent to regular…

The magnetic field is known to play a crucial role in star formation. Dust polarization is an effective tool for probing the morphology of the field, yet it does not directly trace its strength. Several methods have been developed,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-10 Aristeidis Polychronakis , Aris Tritsis , Raphael Skalidis , Konstantinos Tassis

Polarimeric maps have been used on the characterization of the magnetic field in molecular clouds. However, it is difficult to determine the 3-dimensional properties of these regions from the projected maps. In that case, numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-23 D. Falceta-Goncalves , A. Lazarian , G. Kowal

The Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi (DCF) method is widely employed to estimate the mean magnetic field strength in astrophysical plasmas. In this study, we present a numerical investigation using the DCF method in conjunction with a promising…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Parth Pavaskar , Huirong Yan , Jungyeon Cho

The dynamical state of star-forming molecular clouds cannot be understood without determining the structure and strength of their magnetic fields. Measurements of polarized far-infrared radiation from thermally aligned dust grains are used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. Heitsch , E. G. Zweibel , M. -M. Mac Low , P. S. Li , M. L. Norman

Dust polarization orientations in molecular clouds often tend to be close to tangential to the Stokes $I$ dust continuum emission contours. The magnetic field and the emission gradient orientations, therefore, show some correlation. A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Patrick M. Koch , Ya-Wen Tang , Paul T. P. Ho

The Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi (DCF) method is widely used to indirectly estimate the magnetic field strength from the plane-of-sky field orientation. In this work, we present a set of 3D MHD simulations and synthetic polarization images…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-04 Junhao Liu , Qizhou Zhang , Benoit Commercon , Valeska Valdivia , Anaelle Maury , Keping Qiu

[abridged] The interstellar medium is now widely recognized to display features ascribable to magnetized turbulence. With the public release of Planck data and the current balloon-borne and ground-based experiments, the growing amount of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-27 F. Levrier , J. Neveu , E. Falgarone , F. Boulanger , A. Bracco , T. Ghosh , F. Vansyngel

Polarized dust emission is widely used to trace the plane-of-the-sky (POS) component of interstellar magnetic fields in two dimensions. Its potential to access three-dimensional magnetic fields, including the inclination angle of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-04 Yue Hu , A. Lazarian

We report the highest spatial resolution measurement of magnetic fields in M17 using thermal dust polarization taken by SOFIA/HAWC+ centered at 154 $\mu$m wavelength. Using the Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi method, we found the presence of…

Probing magnetic fields in the interstellar medium (ISM) is notoriously challenging. Motivated by the modern theories of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and turbulence anisotropy, we introduce the Structure-Function Analysis (SFA) as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-21 Yue Hu , Siyao Xu , A. Lazarian

Since synchrotron polarization fluctuations are related to the fundamental properties of the magnetic field, we propose the polarization intensity variance to measure the Galactic interstellar medium (ISM) magnetization. We confirm the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-26 Ning-Ning Guo , Jian-Fu Zhang , Hua-Ping Xiao , Jungyeon Cho , Xue-Juan Yang

The characterization of magnetic fields within molecular clouds is fundamental to understanding star formation processes. Accurately gauging the three-dimensional structure of these fields presents a challenge, as observational techniques…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-18 Brandon Shane , Blakesley Burkhart , Laura Fissel , Susan E. Clark , Philip Mocz , Michael M. Foley

Magnetic fields play a fundamental role in protostellar collapse and disk formation, yet direct measurements of magnetic field strength in deeply embedded protostellar envelopes remain difficult. We present a new method to estimate both the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 Yisheng Tu , Xiaoyuan Yang , Zhi-Yun Li

We investigated the morphology and strength of magnetic fields in pillar-shaped structures at the boundaries of HII regions by combining three-dimensional radiation-magnetohydrodynamic, R-MHD, simulations with synthetic polarimetric…

The Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi (DCF) method provides an indirect way to estimate the magnetic field strength from statistics of magnetic field orientations. We compile all the previous DCF estimations from polarized dust emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 Junhao Liu , Keping Qiu , Qizhou Zhang

$\textit{Aims.}$ We present a case study to demonstrate the potential of multi-wavelength polarization measurements. The aim is to investigate the effects that dichroic polarization and thermal re-emission have on tracing the magnetic field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Reissl , S. Wolf , D. Seifried
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