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Understanding how star formation is regulated requires studying the energy balance between turbulence, magnetic fields, stellar feedback, and gravity within molecular clouds. However, identifying the transition region where the gravity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-22 Yue Hu , Alex Lazarian , Ka Ho Yuen

We present the first far infrared (FIR) dust emission polarization map covering the full extent Milky Way's Central molecular zone (CMZ). The data, obtained with the PILOT balloon-borne experiment, covers the Galactic Center region…

We apply Velocity Channel Gradients (VChGs) and Reduced Velocity Centroids Gradients (RVCGs) to H I data (the LAB survey), obtaining the plane-of-sky component (POS) of the magnetic field as a function of the relative velocity. Assuming a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-13 Diego F. Gonzalez-Casanova , A. Lazarian

Measuring the 3D spatial distribution of magnetic fields in the interstellar medium and the intracluster medium is crucial yet challenging. The probing of 3D magnetic field's 3D distribution, including the field plane-of-sky orientation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-28 Yue Hu , Alex Lazarian

The mapping of the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) in three dimensions is essential to comprehend various astrophysical processes that occur within the Milky Way. This study endeavors to map the GMF by utilizing the latest MM2 technique, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-12 Yue Hu , Alex Lazarian

Tracing of the magnetic field with Velocity Gradient Technique (VGT) allows observers to probe magnetic field directions with spectroscopic data. In this paper, we employ the method of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to extract the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Yue Hu , Ka Ho Yuen , A. Lazarian

Strong Alfv\'enic turbulence develops eddy-like motions perpendicular to the local direction of magnetic fields. This local alignment induces velocity gradients perpendicular to the local direction of the magnetic field. We use this fact to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 Diego F. González-Casanova , A. Lazarian

The underlying symmetry of the crystal, electronic structure, and magnetic structure manifests itself in the anisotropy of materials' properties, which is a central topic of the present condensed matter research. However, it demands such a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-10 Kosuke Noda , Kenta Seki , Dilip Bhoi , Kazuyuki Matsubayashi , Kazuto Akiba , Akihiko Ikeda

We study compressible MHD turbulence, which holds key to many astrophysical processes, including star formation and cosmic ray propagation. To account for the variations of the magnetic field in the strongly turbulent fluid we use wavelet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Grzegorz Kowal , Alex Lazarian

We present the magnetic field in the dense material of the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way, traced in 850 $\mu$m polarized dust emission as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) B-fields In STar-forming Region…

This paper presents the results of full polarization observations of the massive star-forming region W75N, conducted with 3 arcsec spatial resolutions at 345 GHz using the Submillimeter Array (SMA). The magnetic field structures in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-13 Lingzhen Zeng , Qizhou Zhang , Felipe O. Alves , Tao-Chung Ching , Josep M. Girart , Junhao Liu

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 very high energy (VHE) emission of the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is rarely modelled in 3D. Most approaches describe the morphology in 1D or simplify the diffusion to the isotropic case. In this work we show the impact of a realistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-19 J. Dörner , J. Becker Tjus , P. -S. Blomenkamp , H. Fichtner , A. Franckowiak , E. M. Zaninger

In the context of intra-cluster medium turbulence, it is essential to be able to split the turbulent velocity field in a compressive and a solenoidal component. We describe and implement a new method for this aim, i.e., performing a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-02 David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis

The interstellar medium in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is known to be strongly magnetised, but its large-scale morphology and impact on the gas dynamics are not well understood. We explore the impact and properties of…

Interaction of three-dimensional magnetic fields, turbulence, and self-gravity in the molecular cloud is crucial in understanding star formation but has not been addressed so far. In this work, we target the low-mass star-forming region…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 Yue Hu , Alex Lazarian

A new method for measuring the large-scale structure of the Galactic magnetic field is presented. The Galactic magnetic field has been probed through the Galactic disk with near-infrared starlight polarimetry, however the distance to each…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Michael D. Pavel

The recent Far-Infrared Polarimetric Large-Area Central Molecular Zone Exploration (FIREPLACE) survey with SOFIA has mapped plane-of-the-sky magnetic field orientations within the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way. Applying the…

Observing 3D magnetic fields, including orientation and strength, within the interstellar medium is vital but notoriously difficult. However, recent advances in our understanding of anisotropic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-06 Yue Hu , A. Lazarian , Yan Wu , Chengcheng Fu