HAWC+ Far-Infrared Observations of the Magnetic Field Geometry in M51 and NGC 891

Terry Jay Jones, Jin-Ah Kim, C. Darren Dowell +29

SOFIA HAWC+ polarimetry at $154~\micron$ is reported for the face-on galaxy M51 and the edge-on galaxy NGC 891. For M51, the polarization vectors generally follow the spiral patter…