12 papers
Multi-Scale Magnetic Field Observations Reveal how Colliding Flows Trigger Star Formation
Jia-Wei Wang, Patrick M. Koch, Hauyu Baobab Liu +4
Magnetic fields play a crucial yet complex role in star formation, while their connection between large-scale filamentary clouds and small-scale young stellar objects remains poorl…
BISTRO Survey: Gravity-Dominated and Magnetically Regulated Star Formation in M17 SW
Mengke Zhao, Keping Qiu, Ji-hyun Kang +27
We present high-resolution magnetic field maps of the M17 SW molecular cloud using JCMT 850 m dust polarization at a scale of 14. The magnetic field exhibits a distinct arc…
Evidence for the gravity-driven and magnetically-regularized gas flows feeding the massive protostellar cluster in Cepheus A
Panigrahy Sandhyarani, Chakali Eswaraiah, Di Li +8
The hierarchical interplay among gravity, magnetic fields, and turbulence in forming massive protostellar clusters remains elusive. We present high-resolution (14 arcsec $\si…
Unveiling Dominant Toroidal Magnetic Fields in a Protostellar Outflow
Tao-Chung Ching, Zhi-Yun Li, Qizhou Zhang +6
Magnetic fields play a fundamental role in the formation of protostellar winds. In the magneto-centrifugal models, poloidal magnetic fields launch winds from accretion disks, and f…
ALMA Polarization Study of the Magnetic Fields in Two Massive Clumps in the 20 km s Cloud of the Central Molecular Zone
Yuhua Liu, Xing Lu, Junhao Liu +14
We present the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of linearly polarized 870 m continuum emission at a resolution of 0.2 (20…
Magnetic threads and gravity: ALMA Observations of IRDC G14.225-0.506
Nacho Añez-López, Gemma Busquet, Josep Miquel Girart +14
During the star formation process, the interplay between gravity, turbulence, and B-fields is significant, with B-fields apparently serving a regulatory function. However, the exte…