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20182023
most citedA New Method to Trace Three-dimensional Magnetic Field Structure within Molecular Clouds Using Dust Polarization

33 citations · 70 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

astro-ph.SR2023★ 1 cited

Modeling CN Zeeman Effect Observations of the Envelopes of a Low-Mass Protostellar Disk and a Massive Protostar

Renato Mazzei, Zhi-Yun Li, Che-Yu Chen +3

We use the POLARIS radiative transfer code to produce simulated circular polarization Zeeman emission maps of the CN molecular line transition for two types of protoste…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Relative Alignment Between Magnetic Fields and Molecular Gas Structure in Molecular Clouds

Renato Mazzei, Zhi-Yun Li, Che-Yu Chen +3

We compare the structure of synthetic dust polarization with synthetic molecular line emission from radiative transfer calculations using a 3-dimensional, turbulent collapsing-clou…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 25 cited

The Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi Method Revisited

Che-Yu Chen, Zhi-Yun Li, Renato R. Mazzei +5

Despite the rich observational results on interstellar magnetic fields in star-forming regions, it is still unclear how dynamically significant the magnetic fields are at varying p…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 7 cited

Untangling Magnetic Complexity in Protoplanetary Disks with the Zeeman Effect

Renato Mazzei, L. Ilsedore Cleeves, Zhi-Yun Li

With the recent advent of circular polarization capabilities at the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Zeeman effect measurements of spectral lines are now possib…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 33 cited

A New Method to Trace Three-dimensional Magnetic Field Structure within Molecular Clouds Using Dust Polarization

Che-Yu Chen, Patrick K. King, Zhi-Yun Li +2

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 sta…