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Polarized dust continuum emission has been observed with ALMA in an increasing number of deeply embedded protostellar systems. It generally shows a sharp transition going from the protostellar envelope to the disk scale, with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-04 Ka Ho Lam , Che-Yu Chen , Zhi-Yun Li , Haifeng Yang , Erin G. Cox , Leslie W. Looney , Ian Stephens

Spatially resolved polarized (sub-)mm emission has been observed for example in the protoplanetary disk around HL Tau. Magnetically aligned grains are commonly interpreted as the source of polarization. However, self-scattering by large…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Pohl , A. Kataoka , P. Pinilla , C. P. Dullemond , Th. Henning , T. Birnstiel

The full-sky Planck polarization data at 850um revealed unexpected properties of the E and B mode power spectra of dust emission in the interstellar medium (ISM). The positive cross-correlation between the total dust intensity, T, with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 Andrea Bracco , Simon Candelaresi , Fabio Del Sordo , Axel Brandenburg

Optical and infrared continuum polarization from the interstellar medium is known to generally be due to irregular dust grains aligned with the magnetic field. This provides an important tool to probe the geometry and strength of those…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 Ilija Medan , B-G Andersson

The investigation of polarized light of protoplanetary disks is key for constraining the dust properties, disk morphology and embedded magnetic fields. However, different polarization mechanisms and the diversity of dust grain shapes and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Robert Brunngräber , Sebastian Wolf

Magnetically and thermally driven disk winds have gained popularity in the light of the current paradigm of low viscosities in protoplanetary disks that nevertheless present large accretion rates even in the presence of inner cavities. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Peter J. Rodenkirch , Cornelis P. Dullemond

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

Of all the factors that influence star formation, magnetic fields are perhaps the least well understood. The goal of this paper is to characterize the 3D magnetic field properties of nearby molecular clouds through various methods of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-13 Colin H. Sullivan , Laura Fissel , Patrick King , Che-Yu Chen , Zhi-Yun Li , Juan Soler

We describe a morphological imprint of magnetization found when considering the relative orientation of the magnetic field direction with respect to the density structures in simulated turbulent molecular clouds. This imprint was found…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-08-27 J. D. Soler , P. Hennebelle , P. G. Martin , M. A. Miville-Deschênes , C. B. Netterfield , L. M. Fissel

3D Galactic magnetic fields are critical for understanding the interstellar medium, Galactic foreground polarization, and the propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Leveraging recent theoretical insights into anisotropic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-23 Yue Hu

We present 870 $\mu$m ALMA polarization observations of thermal dust emission from the iconic, edge-on debris disk $\beta$ Pic. While the spatially resolved map does not exhibit detectable polarized dust emission, we detect polarization at…

We present 1.3 and 3.3 mm polarization maps of Orion-KL obtained with the BIMA array at approximately 4 arcsec resolution. Thermal emission from magnetically aligned dust grains produces the polarization. Along the Orion ``ridge'' the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Rao , R. M. Crutcher , R. L. Plambeck , M. C. H. Wright

Aims: In this paper we present a case study to investigate conditions necessary to detect a characteristic magnetic field substructure embedded in a large-scale field. A helical magnetic field with a surrounding hourglass shaped field is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-12 S. Reissl , D. Seifried , S. Wolf , R. Banerjee , R. S. Klessen

We present synthetic dust polarisation maps of 3D magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of molecular clouds before the onset of stellar feedback. The clouds are modelled within the SILCC-Zoom project and are embedded in their galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 D. Seifried , S. Walch , S. Reissl , J. C. Ibáñez-Mejía

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

Polarization at millimeter wavelengths provides a powerful diagnostic of dust grain properties in protoplanetary disks. Standard models based on solid spherical grains often struggle to reproduce the observed polarization fractions and…

(Sub)millimeter dust polarization in protoplanetary disks has revealed the presence of large (~ 100 um) dust grains that are aligned along their long axis following the azimuthal direction of the disk. The novel Badminton Birdie-like…

We model the polarized thermal dust emission from protostellar cores that are assembled by super-sonic turbulent flows in molecular clouds. Self-gravitating cores are selected from a three dimensional simulation of super-sonic and…

The size of dust grains, $a$, is key to the physical and chemical processes in circumstellar disks, but observational constraints of grain size remain challenging. (Sub)millimeter continuum observations often show a percent-level…