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Striations are diffuse, linear, quasi-periodic, and magnetized structures located in the outskirts of molecular clouds. These structures seem to play an important role during the earliest stages of star formation. Theoretical models suggest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-03 Raphael Skalidis , Konstantinos Tassis , Aris Tritsis , Paul F Goldsmith

High-resolution, wide-area mapping of magnetic field geometries within molecular clouds, and the star-forming filaments and cores within them, is crucial in order to understand the role of magnetic fields in the star formation process. We…

Despite recent observational and theoretical advances in mapping the magnetic fields associated with molecular clouds, their three-dimensional (3D) morphology remains unresolved. Multi-wavelength and multi-scale observations will allow us…

The configuration and evolution of the magnetic field in star-forming cores are investigated in order to directly compare simulations and observations. We prepare four different initial clouds having different magnetic field strengths and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Akimasa Kataoka , Masahiro N. Machida , Kohji Tomisaka

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

The complete three-dimensional structure of the magnetic field within molecular clouds has eluded determination despite its high value in determining controlling factors in the star formation process, as it cannot be directly probed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 Che-Yu Chen , Patrick K. King , Zhi-Yun Li , Laura M. Fissel , Renato R. Mazzei

The PRIMAger instrument on board the proposed PRIMA satellite will offer the unprecedented capability to obtain hundreds of square-degree maps in polarised emission at sub-arcminute resolution in four Far-IR bands. This will open a unique…

Magnetic fields can regulate disk formation, accretion and jet launching. Until recently, it has been difficult to obtain high resolution observations of the magnetic fields of the youngest protostars in the critical region near the…

Magnetic fields pervade in the interstellar medium (ISM) and are believed to be important in the process of star formation, yet probing magnetic fields in star formation regions is challenging. We propose a new method to use Faraday…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-27 M. Tahani , R. Plume , J. C. Brown , J. Kainulainen

To what extent magnetic fields affect how molecular clouds (MCs) fragment and create dense structures is an open question. We present a numerical study of cloud fragmentation using the SILCC-Zoom simulations. These simulations follow the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 S. Ganguly , S. Walch , D. Seifried , S. D. Clarke , M. Weis

The IC5146 cloud is a nearby star-forming region in Cygnus, consisting of molecular gas filaments in a variety of evolutionary stages. We used optical and near-infrared polarization data toward the IC5146 cloud, reported in the first paper…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-27 Jia-Wei Wang , Shih-Ping Lai , Dan P. Clemens , Patrick M. Koch , C. Eswaraiah , Wen-Ping Chen , A. K. Pandey

We present BISTRO Survey 850 {\mu}m dust emission polarisation observations of the L1495A-B10 region of the Taurus molecular cloud, taken at the JCMT. We observe a roughly triangular network of dense filaments. We detect 9 of the dense…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Derek Ward-Thompson , Janik Karoly , Kate Pattle , Anthony Whitworth , Jason Kirk , David Berry , Pierre Bastien , Tao-Chung Ching , Simon Coude , Jihye Hwang , Woojin Kwon , Archana Soam , Jia-Wei Wang , Tetsuo Hasegawa , Shih-Ping Lai , Keping Qiu , Doris Arzoumanian , Tyler L. Bourke , Do-Young Byun , Huei-Ru Vivien Chen , Wen Ping Chen , Mike Chen , Zhiwei Chen , Jungyeon Cho , Minho Choi , Youngwoo Choi , Yunhee Choi , Antonio Chrysostomou , Eun Jung Chung , Sophia Dai , Victor Debattista , James Di Francesco , Pham Ngoc Diep , Yasuo Doi , Hao-Yuan Duan , Yan Duan , Chakali Eswaraiah , Lapo Fanciullo , Jason Fiege , Laura M. Fissel , Erica Franzmann , Per Friberg , Rachel Friesen , Gary Fuller , Ray Furuya , Tim Gledhill , Sarah Graves , Jane Greaves , Matt Griffin , Qilao Gu , Ilseung Han , Saeko Hayashi , Thiem Hoang , Martin Houde , Charles L. H. Hull , Tsuyoshi Inoue , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Kazunari Iwasaki , Il-Gyo Jeong , Doug Johnstone , Vera Konyves , Ji-hyun Kang , Miju Kang , Akimasa Kataoka , Koji Kawabata , Francisca Kemper , Jongsoo Kim , Shinyoung Kim , Gwanjeong Kim , Kyoung Hee Kim , Mi-Ryang Kim , Kee-Tae Kim , Hyosung Kim , Florian Kirchschlager , Masato I. N. Kobayashi , Patrick M. Koch , Takayoshi Kusune , Jungmi Kwon , Kevin Lacaille , Chi-Yan Law , Chang Won Lee , Hyeseung Lee , Yong-Hee Lee , Chin-Fei Lee , Jeong-Eun Lee , Sang-Sung Lee , Dalei Li , Di Li , Guangxing Li , Hua-bai Li , Sheng-Jun Lin , Hong-Li Liu , Tie Liu , Sheng-Yuan Liu , Junhao Liu , Steven Longmore , Xing Lu , A-Ran Lyo , Steve Mairs , Masafumi Matsumura , Brenda Matthews , Gerald Moriarty-Schieven , Tetsuya Nagata , Fumitaka Nakamura , Hiroyuki Nakanishi , Nguyen Bich Ngoc , Nagayoshi Ohashi , Takashi Onaka , Geumsook Park , Harriet Parsons , Nicolas Peretto , Felix Priestley , Tae-Soo Pyo , Lei Qian , Ramprasad Rao , Jonathan Rawlings , Mark Rawlings , Brendan Retter , John Richer , Andrew Rigby , Sarah Sadavoy , Hiro Saito , Giorgio Savini , Masumichi Seta , Yoshito Shimajiri , Hiroko Shinnaga , Mehrnoosh Tahani , Motohide Tamura , Ya-Wen Tang , Xindi Tang , Kohji Tomisaka , Le Ngoc Tram , Yusuke Tsukamoto , Serena Viti , Hongchi Wang , Jintai Wu , Jinjin Xie , Meng-Zhe Yang , Hsi-Wei Yen , Hyunju Yoo , Jinghua Yuan , Hyeong-Sik Yun , Tetsuya Zenko , Guoyin Zhang , Yapeng Zhang , Chuan-Peng Zhang , Jianjun Zhou , Lei Zhu , Ilse de Looze , Philippe Andre , C. Darren Dowell , David Eden , Stewart Eyres , Sam Falle , Valentin J. M. Le Gouellec , Frederick Poidevin , Jean-Francois Robitaille , Sven van Loo

We study star formation in the Center Ridge 1 (CR1) clump in the Vela C giant molecular cloud, selected as a high column density region that shows the lowest level of dust continuum polarization angle dispersion, likely indicating that the…

In nearby star-forming clouds, amplification and dissipation of the magnetic field are known to play crucial roles in the star-formation process. The star-forming environment varies from place to place and era to era in galaxies. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Koki Higuchi , Masahiro N. Machida , Hajime Susa

Magnetic fields are dynamically important in the diffuse interstellar medium. Understanding how gravitationally bound, star-forming clouds form requires modeling of the fields in a self-consistent, supernova-driven, turbulent, magnetized,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 Juan C. Ibáñez-Mejía , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Ralf S. Klessen

We present SOFIA+ALMA continuum and spectral-line polarisation data on the massive molecular cloud BYF 73, revealing important details about the magnetic field morphology, gas structures, and energetics in this unusual massive star…

The role played by magnetic field during star formation is an important topic in astrophysics. We investigate the correlation between the orientation of star-forming cores (as defined by the core major axes) and ambient magnetic field…

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

The atomic interstellar medium (ISM) is observed to be full of linear structures that are referred to as "fibers". Fibers exhibit similar properties to linear structures found in molecular clouds known as striations. Suggestive of a similar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-19 Aris Tritsis , Christoph Federrath , Vasiliki Pavlidou

Planck observations at 353GHz provide the first fully-sampled maps of the polarized dust emission towards interstellar filaments and their backgrounds. The polarization data provide insight on the structure of their magnetic field (B). We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-10 Planck Collaboration , P. A. R. Ade , N. Aghanim , M. I. R. Alves , M. Arnaud , D. Arzoumanian , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. -P. Bernard , O. Berné , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , A. Bonaldi , L. Bonavera , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , A. Bracco , C. Burigana , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , A. Chamballu , H. C. Chiang , P. R. Christensen , D. L. Clements , S. Colombi , C. Combet , F. Couchot , B. P. Crill , A. Curto , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , C. Dickinson , J. M. Diego , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , M. Douspis , A. Ducout , X. Dupac , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , E. Falgarone , K. Ferrière , O. Forni , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frejsel , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , T. Ghosh , M. Giard , Y. Giraud-Héraud , E. Gjerløw , J. González-Nuevo , A. Gregorio , A. Gruppuso , V. Guillet , F. K. Hansen , D. Hanson , D. L. Harrison , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , D. Herranz , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , M. Hobson , W. A. Holmes , K. M. Huffenberger , G. Hurier , A. H. Jaffe , T. R. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , M. Juvela , R. Keskitalo , T. S. Kisner , J. Knoche , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , C. R. Lawrence , R. Leonardi , F. Levrier , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Linden-Vørnle , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , J. F. Macías-Pérez , B. Maffei , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , P. Mazzotta , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , D. Munshi , J. A. Murphy , P. Naselsky , F. Nati , P. Natoli , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , N. Oppermann , L. Pagano , F. Pajot , R. Paladini , D. Paoletti , F. Pasian , F. Perrotta , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , G. W. Pratt , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , R. Rebolo , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , C. Renault , A. Renzi , S. Ricciardi , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , M. Rossetti , G. Roudier , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Rusholme , M. Sandri , M. Savelainen , G. Savini , D. Scott , J. D. Soler , V. Stolyarov , D. Sutton , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , M. Tucci , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , P. Vielva , F. Villa , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca
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