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Millimeter-wavelength polarization measurements offer a promising method for probing the geometry of magnetic fields in circumstellar disks. Single dish observations and theoretical work have hinted that magnetic field geometries might be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. M. Hughes , C. L. H. Hull , D. J. Wilner , R. L. Plambeck

We present a large-scale view of the magnetic field in the central 2deg * 2deg region of our Galaxy. The polarization of point sources has been measured in the J, H, and Ks bands using the near-infrared polarimetric camera SIRPOL on the 1.4…

In a magnetically-dominated model of star formation, we expect to see alignments between the magnetic field orientation of star-forming dense cores and the cloud-scale magnetic field. Pandhi et al. (2023) showed instead, however, that the…

Polarimetry in the far-infrared and submillimeter has been valuable in tracing magnetic fields in bright Galactic Clouds. We discuss the techniques we have developed and trends we have found in polarization vs column density, and vs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Roger Hildebrand

We made R-band polarization measurements of 234 stars towards the direction of MBM 33-39 cloud complex. The distance of MBM 33-39 complex was determined as $120\pm10$ pc using polarization results and near-infrared photometry from the 2MASS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 S. Neha , G. Maheswar , A. Soam , Chang Won Lee

We use numerical simulations of turbulent cluster-forming regions to study the nature of dense filamentary structures in star formation. Using four hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic simulations chosen to match observations, we identify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Helen Kirk , Ralph Pudritz , Mikhail Klassen , Samantha Pillsworth

We used data from the \wmap satellite at 23, 33 and 41 GHz to study the diffuse polarised emission over the entire sky. The emission originates mostly from filamentary structures with well-ordered magnetic fields. Some of these structures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Matias Vidal , C. Dickinson , R. D. Davies , J. P. Leahy

Observations show that galaxies and their interstellar media are pervaded by strong magnetic fields with energies in the diffuse component being at least comparable to the thermal and even as large or larger than the turbulent energy. Such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Bastian Körtgen , Robi Banerjee , Ralph E. Pudritz , Wolfram Schmidt

We report new imaging polarimetry observations of the Galactic compact HII region K3-50 using CanariCam at the Gran Telescopio Canarias. We use a standard polarimetric analysis technique, first outlined by Aitken, to decompose the observed…

The origin of astrophysical magnetic fields observed in galaxies and clusters of galaxies is still unclear. One possibility is that primordial magnetic fields generated in the early Universe provide seeds that grow through compression and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 C. Fedeli , L. Moscardini

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

This article combines new CCD polarimetric data with previous information about protostellar objects in a search for correlations involving the interstellar magnetic field. Specifically, we carried out an optical polarimetric study of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-24 Cristiane G. Targon , Claudia V. Rodrigues , Adriano H. Cerqueira , Gabriel R. Hickel

Abridged. A large fraction of stars are found in binary systems. It is therefore important for our understanding of the star formation process, to investigate the fragmentation of dense molecular cores. We study the influence of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Hennebelle , R. Teyssier

We present first results from SIMPLIFI (Study of Interstellar Magnetic Polarization: a Legacy Investigation of Filaments), a SOFIA/HAWC+ $214~\mu\rm{}m$ polarimetric survey of Galactic molecular cloud filaments. We trace magnetic field…

To investigate the role of magnetic fields in the evolution of the interstellar medium, formation and evolution of molecular clouds, and ultimately the formation of stars, their three-dimensional (3D) magnetic fields must be probed.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-27 Mehrnoosh Tahani

We present results of 1.3 mm dust polarization observations toward 16 nearby, low-mass protostars, mapped with ~2.5" resolution at CARMA. The results show that magnetic fields in protostellar cores on scales of ~1000 AU are not tightly…

This book chapter reviews the current state of observations of magnetic fields in diffuse H I and in dense molecular clouds. It covers techniques for measuring magnetic fields, the analysis of the observations, and the role of magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Carl Heiles , Richard Crutcher

We follow the ambipolar-diffusion--driven formation and evolution of a fragment in a magnetically supported molecular cloud, until a hydrostatic protostellar core forms at its center. This problem was formulated in Paper I. We determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Konstantinos Tassis , Telemachos Ch. Mouschovias

Methods: Observing the large pc-scale Stokes I mm dust continuum emission with the IRAM 30m telescope and the intermediate-scale (<0.1pc) polarized submm dust emission with the Submillimeter Array toward a sample of 20 high-mass…

Cores and filamentary structures are the prime birthplaces of stars, and play key roles in the process of star formation. Latest advances in the methods of multi-scale source and filament extraction, and in making high-resolution column…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Chang Zhang , Guo-Yin Zhang , Jin-Zeng Li , Xue-Mei Li