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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…

Circumstellar disk dust polarization in the (sub)millimeter is, for the most part, not from dust grain alignment with magnetic fields but rather indicative of a combination of dust self-scattering with a yet unknown alignment mechanism that…

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…

Telescopes are now able to resolve dust polarization across circumstellar disks at multiple wavelengths, allowing the study of the polarization spectrum. Most disks show clear evidence of dust scattering through their unidirectional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin , Zhi-Yun Li , Haifeng Yang , Ian Stephens , Leslie Looney , Rachel Harrison , Manuel Fernández-López

Scattering of re-emitted flux is considered to be at least partially responsible for the observed polarisation in the (sub-)millimetre wavelength range of several protoplanetary disks. Although the degree of polarisation produced by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Robert Brunngräber , Sebastian Wolf

We present observational results of the thermal dust continuum emission and its linear polarization in one of the nearest massive star-forming sites Orion BN/KL in Orion Molecular Cloud-1. The observations were carried out with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Ya-Wen Tang , Paul T. P. Ho , Patrick M. Koch , Ramprasad Rao

The protoplanetary disk around Ophiuchus IRS 48 shows an azimuthally asymmetric dust distribution in (sub-)millimeter observations, which is interpreted as a vortex, where millimeter/centimeter-sized particles are trapped at the location of…

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

The dust sub-millimetre polarisation of star-forming clouds carries information on dust and the role of magnetic fields in cloud evolution. With observations of a dense filamentary cloud G035.39-00.33, we aim to characterise the dust…

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

Polarization of starlight and thermal dust emission due to aligned non-spherical grains helps us to trace magnetic field (B-field) morphology in molecular clouds and to study grain alignment mechanisms. In this work, we study grain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-22 Saikhom Pravash , Archana Soam , Pham Ngoc Diep , Thiem Hoang , Nguyen Bich Ngoc , Le Ngoc Tram

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

Multiwavelength dust continuum and polarization observations arising from self-scattering have been used to investigate grain sizes in young disks. However, the polarization by self-scattering is low in face-on optically thick disks and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Joaquin Zamponi , María José Maureira , Hauyu Baobab Liu , Bo Zhao , Dominique Segura-Cox , Chia-Lin Ko , Paola Caselli

Interstellar dust grain alignment causes polarization from UV to mm wavelengths, allowing the study of the geometry and strength of the magnetic field. Over last couple of decades observations and theory have led to the establishment of the…

Polarized dust emission outside of disks reveal the magnetic field morphology of molecular clouds. Within disks, however, polarized dust emission can arise from very different mechanisms (e.g., self-scattering), and each of them are useful…

Debris disks give us the unique opportunity to probe the properties of small $\mu$m-sized particles, allowing us to peer into the constituents of their parent bodies, young analogs of comets and asteroids of our solar system. In the past,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Johan Olofsson , Philippe Thébault , Amelia Bayo , Thomas Henning , Julien Milli

Dust grains are important in various astrophysical processes and serve as indicators of interstellar medium structures, density, and mass. Understanding their physical properties and chemical composition is crucial in astrophysics. Dust…

Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) has revolutionized the field of dust polarization in protoplanetary disks across multiple wavelengths. Previous observations and empirical modeling suggested multiple mechanisms of dust…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Nguyen Tat Thang , Pham Ngoc Diep , Thiem Hoang , Le Ngoc Tram , Nguyen Bich Ngoc , Nguyen Thi Phuong , Bao Truong

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

Magnetic fields ($\textbf{B}$) are an important factor that controls the star formation process. The leading method to observe $\textbf{B}$ is using polarized thermal emission from dust grains aligned with $\textbf{B}$. However, in dense…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-16 Nguyen Chau Giang , Thiem Hoang , Jeong-Gyu Kim , Le Ngoc Tram