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B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO): Dual-Wavelength Constraints on Size-Dependent Grain Alignment in Star-Forming Regions
Ray S. Furuya, David Berry, Pierre Bastien +65
We compared 450 and 850 m POL-2 observations from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope at resolution. The median absolute difference in polarization angle between bands is…
B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO): Technical Foundations for Quantitative 450/850 m JCMT SCUBA-2/POL-2 Polarimetry
Ray S. Furuya, David Berry, Pierre Bastien +59
We present five technical validations of SCUBA-2/POL-2 polarimetry on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope at 450 and 850 m, using 174 archival fields in 69 molecular cloud regions…
Magnetic field alignment with dense cores in the transition between cloud and core scales
Sean Yin, Ayush Pandhi, Rachel Friesen +7
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 fie…
Estimating the dense gas mass of molecular clouds using spatially unresolved 3 mm line observations
Antoine Zakardjian, Annie Hughes, Jérôme Pety +28
We aim to develop a new method to infer the sub-beam probability density function (PDF) of H2 column densities and the dense gas mass within molecular clouds using spatially unreso…
The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Unveiling the Magnetic Fields around Galactic Center
Meng-Zhe Yang, Shih-Ping Lai, Janik Karoly +40
We acquired 450 μm and 850 μm dust continuum polarization observations toward the inner region of the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) as part of the B-Fields In Star-Forming Region Ob…
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: First results from the Corona Australis molecular cloud and evidence of variable dust emissivity indices in the Coronet region
Kate Pattle, David Bresnahan, Derek Ward-Thompson +47
We present 450m and 850m James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) observations of the Corona Australis (CrA) molecular cloud taken as part of the JCMT Gould Belt Legacy Survey (G…
Applying the Velocity Gradient Technique in NGC 1333: Comparison with Dust Polarization Observations
Archana Soam, Ka Ho Yuen, Ian Stephens +3
Magnetic fields (B-fields) are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium (ISM), and they play an essential role in the formation of molecular clouds and subsequent star formation. Howe…
Quantifying the informativity of emission lines to infer physical conditions in giant molecular clouds. I. Application to model predictions
Lucas Einig, Pierre Palud, Antoine Roueff +29
Observations of ionic, atomic, or molecular lines are performed to improve our understanding of the interstellar medium (ISM). However, the potential of a line to constrain the phy…
Bias versus variance when fitting multi-species molecular lines with a non-LTE radiative transfer model
Antoine Roueff, Jérôme Pety, Maryvonne Gerin +28
Robust radiative transfer techniques are requisite for efficiently extracting the physical and chemical information from molecular rotational lines.We study several hypotheses that…
The magnetic field in the Flame nebula
Ivana Bešlić, Simon Coudé, Dariusz C. Lis +14
Star formation is essential in galaxy evolution and the cycling of matter. The support of interstellar clouds against gravitational collapse by magnetic (B-) fields has been propos…
The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Evidence for Pinched Magnetic Fields in Quiescent Filaments of NGC 1333
Yasuo Doi, Kohji Tomisaka, Tetsuo Hasegawa +33
We investigate the internal 3D magnetic structure of dense interstellar filaments within NGC 1333 using polarization data at from the -fields In STar-forming R…
SOFIA observations of 30 Doradus: I -- Far-Infrared dust polarization and implications for grain alignment and disruption by radiative torques
Le Ngoc Tram, Thiem Hoang, Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez +7
Located in the Large Magellanic cloud and mostly irradiated by a massive-star cluster R136, 30 Doradus is an ideal target to test the leading theory of the grain alignment and…
The JCMT BISTRO-2 Survey: The Magnetic Field in the Center of the Rosette Molecular Cloud
Vera Könyves, Derek Ward-Thompson, Kate Pattle +33
We present the first 850 m polarization observations in the most active star-forming site of the Rosette Molecular Cloud (RMC, 1.6 kpc) in the wall of the Rosette Nebula,…
Revealing the diverse magnetic field morphologies in Taurus dense cores with sensitive sub-millimeter polarimetry
Chakali Eswaraiah, Di Li, Ray S. Furuya +142
We have obtained sensitive dust continuum polarization observations at 850 m in the B213 region of Taurus using POL-2 on SCUBA-2 at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), as…
JCMT POL-2 and BISTRO Survey observations of magnetic fields in the L1689 molecular cloud
Kate Pattle, Shih-Ping Lai, James Di Francesco +26
We present 850m polarization observations of the L1689 molecular cloud, part of the nearby Ophiuchus molecular cloud complex, taken with the POL-2 polarimeter on the James Clerk…
The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Magnetic Fields Associated with a Network of Filaments in NGC 1333
Yasuo Doi, Tetsuo Hasegawa, Ray S. Furuya +135
We present new observations of the active star-formation region NGC 1333 in the Perseus molecular cloud complex from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope B-Fields In Star-forming Regi…
Magnetic Fields Studies in the Next Decade: EAO Submillimetre Futures White Paper Series, 2019
Ray S. Furuya, Kate Pattle, Simon Coudé +7
Magnetic fields are ubiquitous in our Universe, but remain poorly understood in many branches of astrophysics. A key tool for inferring astrophysical magnetic field properties is d…
JCMT BISTRO Survey observations of the Ophiuchus Molecular Cloud: Dust grain alignment properties inferred using a Ricean noise model
Kate Pattle, Shih-Ping Lai, Tetsuo Hasegawa +18
The dependence of polarization fraction on total intensity in polarized submillimeter emission measurements is typically parameterized as , and…
The JCMT BISTRO Survey: The Magnetic Field of the Barnard 1 Star-Forming Region
Simon Coudé, Pierre Bastien, Martin Houde +118
We present the POL-2 850 m linear polarization map of the Barnard 1 clump in the Perseus molecular cloud complex from the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) s…
The JCMT BISTRO Survey: The Magnetic Field In The Starless Core Ophiuchus C
Junhao Liu, Keping Qiu, David Berry +128
We report 850~m dust polarization observations of a low-mass (12 ) starless core in the Ophiuchus cloud, Ophiuchus C, made with the POL-2 instrument on the…
JCMT BISTRO survey: Magnetic Fields within the Hub-Filament Structure in IC 5146
Jia-Wei Wang, Shih-Ping Lai, Chakali Eswaraiah +130
We present the 850 m polarization observations toward the IC5146 filamentary cloud taken using the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) and its associated polar…
First results from BISTRO -- a SCUBA-2 polarimeter survey of the Gould Belt
Derek Ward-Thompson, Kate Pattle, Pierre Bastien +111
We present the first results from the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) survey, using the Sub-millimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) camera, with it…
The JCMT Gould Belt Survey: First results from SCUBA-2 observations of the Cepheus Flare Region
Kate Pattle, Derek Ward-Thompson, Jason M. Kirk +57
We present observations of the Cepheus Flare obtained as part of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Gould Belt Legacy Survey (GBLS) with the SCUBA-2 instrument. We produce a…