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Magnetic and energetic properties are presented for 17 dense cores within a few hundred pc of the Sun. Their plane-of-sky field strengths are estimated from the dispersion of polarization directions, following Davis, Chandrasekhar and Fermi…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Philip C. Myers , Shantanu Basu

The goal of this work is to constrain the strength and structure of the magnetic field associated with the environment of the radio source 3C 449, using observations of Faraday rotation, which we model with a structure function technique…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. Guidetti , R. A. Laing , M. Murgia , F. Govoni , L. Gregorini , P. Parma

To investigate the role of magnetic fields toward the G35N and G35S sub-regions in the G35.20-0.74 star-forming complex, we utilized multi-wavelength polarimetric observations from the SOFIA/HAWC+ at 154 $\mu$m and ACT at 220 GHz/1.3 mm.…

Linearly polarized dust emission traces the plane-of-sky magnetic field structure, thus allowing us to investigate the role of magnetic fields in the formation and evolution of cloud cores. In this work, we present observations of dust…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Shivani Gupta , Archana Soam , Janik Karoly , Chang Won Lee

We present synthetic dust polarization maps of simulated molecular clouds (MCs) with the goal to systematically explore the origin of the relative orientation of the magnetic field ($\bf{B}$) with respect to the MC sub-structures identified…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 D. Seifried , S. Walch , M. Weis , S. Reissl , J. D. Soler , R. S. Klessen , P. R. Joshi

Dust polarization is a powerful tool for studying the magnetic field properties in the interstellar medium (ISM). However, it does not provide a direct measurement of its strength. Different methods havebeen developed which employ both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Raphael Skalidis , Konstantinos Tassis

Due to dust grain alignment with magnetic fields, dust polarization observations of far-infrared emission from cold molecular clouds are often used to trace magnetic fields, allowing a probe of the effects of magnetic fields on the star…

We present observations of linear polarization from dust thermal emission at 850 $\mu m$ towards the starless cloud L183. These data were obtained at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) using the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-10 Janik Karoly , Archana Soam , B-G Andersson , Simon Coudé , Pierre Bastien , John E. Vaillancourt , Chang Won Lee

Magnetic fields are believed to play an important role in controlling the stability and contraction of dense condensations of gas and dust leading to the formation of stars and planetary systems. In the present study, the magnetic field of…

The most accurate measurements of magnetic fields in star-forming gas are based on the Zeeman observations analyzed by Crutcher et al. (2010). We show that their finding that the 3D magnetic field scales approximately as density$^{0.65}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Pak Shing Li , Christopher F. McKee , Richard I. Klein

Deep R-band CCD linear polarimetry collected for fields with lines-of-sight toward the Lupus I molecular cloud is used to investigate the properties of the magnetic field within this molecular cloud. The observed sample contains about 7000…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-01 G. A. P. Franco , F. O. Alves

Motivated by the recently discovered high-$T_c$ bilayer nickelate superconductor La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$, we comprehensively research a bilayer $2\times2\times2$ cluster for different electronic densities $n$ by using the Lanczos method. We also…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-03 Ling-Fang Lin , Yang Zhang , Nitin Kaushal , Gonzalo Alvarez , Thomas A. Maier , Adriana Moreo , Elbio Dagotto

We present the first high-angular resolution (up to 0.7", ~5000 AU) polarization and thermal dust continuum images toward the massive star-forming region W51 North. The observations were carried out with the Submillimeter Array (SMA) in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Ya-Wen Tang , Paul T. P. Ho , Patrick M. Koch , Stephane Guilloteau , Anne Dutrey

We report on detection of an ordered magnetic field (B field) threading a massive star-forming clump in the molecular cloud G35.2-0.74, using Submillimeter Array observations of polarized dust emission. Thanks to the sensitive and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Keping Qiu , Qizhou Zhang , Karl M. Menten , Hauyu B. Liu , Ya-Wen Tang

We have mapped linearly polarized dust emission from L183 with the JCMT SCUBA polarimeter and have analyzed these and our previously published data for the prestellar cores L183, L1544, and L43 in order to estimate magnetic field strengths…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. M. Crutcher , D. J. Nutter , D. Ward-Thompson , J. M. Kirk

(abridged) Together with gravity, turbulence, and stellar feedback, magnetic fields (B-fields) are thought to play a critical role in the evolution of molecular clouds and star formation processes. We aim to map the morphology and measure…

We present a study of the line-of-sight magnetic fields in five large-diameter Galactic HII regions. Using the Faraday rotation of background polarized radio sources, as well as dust-corrected H-alpha surface brightness as a probe of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Lisa Harvey-Smith , Gregory J. Madsen , Bryan M. Gaensler

We present the first resolved map of plane-of-sky magnetic field strength for a quiescent molecular cloud. GRSMC 45.60+0.30 subtends 40 x 10 pc at a distance of 1.88 kpc, masses 16,000 M_sun, and exhibits no star formation. Near-infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-08-31 Robert C. Marchwinski , Michael D. Pavel , Dan P. Clemens

The goal of this work is to constrain the strength and structure of the magnetic field in the nearby cluster of galaxies A2255. At radio wavelengths A2255 is characterized by the presence of a polarized radio halo at the cluster center, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Govoni , M. Murgia , L. Feretti , G. Giovannini , K. Dolag , G. B. Taylor

The origin of asymmetric radio polarized emission and properties of magnetic fields in the Virgo Cluster spiral NGC4254 are investigated with help of "magnetic maps" presenting distributions of different magnetic field components over the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Krzysztof T. Chyzy
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