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astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALOHA IRDCs Molecular Line Follow-up: I. Gas properties and kinematics

Jinjin Xie, Yaoting Yan, Zhiyuan Ren +109

Infrared Dark Clouds are ideal sites for investigating the initial conditions of massive star and cluster formation. The A Lei Of the Habitat and Assembly of Infrared Dark Clouds (…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

A Tale of Three: Magnetic Fields along the Orion Integral-Shaped Filament as Revealed by JCMT BISTRO survey

Jintai Wu, Keping Qiu, Frederick Poidevin +152

As part of the BISTRO survey, we present JCMT 850 m polarimetric observations towards the Orion Integral-Shaped Filament (ISF) that covers three portions known as OMC-1, OMC-2,…

astro-ph.GA2024

The JCMT BISTRO Survey: The Magnetic Fields of the IC 348 Star-forming Region

Youngwoo Choi, Woojin Kwon, Kate Pattle +150

We present 850 m polarization observations of the IC 348 star-forming region in the Perseus molecular cloud as part of the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observation (BISTRO) s…

astro-ph.GA2024

Polarization Holes as an Indicator of Magnetic Field-Angular Momentum Alignment I. Initial Tests

Lijun Wang, Zhuo Cao, Xiaodan Fan +1

The formation of protostellar disks is still a mystery, largely due to the difficulties in observations that can constrain theories. For example, the 3D alignment between the rotat…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 14 cited

The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Studying the Complex Magnetic Field of L43

Janik Karoly, Derek Ward-Thompson, Kate Pattle +155

We present observations of polarized dust emission at 850 m from the L43 molecular cloud which sits in the Ophiuchus cloud complex. The data were taken using SCUBA-2/POL-2 on th…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

Turbulence in Zeeman Measurements from Molecular Clouds

Zhuo Cao, Hua-bai Li

Magnetic fields (B-fields) play an important role in molecular cloud fragmentation and star formation, but are very difficult to detect. The temporal correlation between the field…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

First BISTRO observations of the dark cloud Taurus L1495A-B10: the role of the magnetic field in the earliest stages of low-mass star formation

Derek Ward-Thompson, Janik Karoly, Kate Pattle +155

We present BISTRO Survey 850 μm dust emission polarisation observations of the L1495A-B10 region of the Taurus molecular cloud, taken at the JCMT. We observe a roughly triangular n…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 24 cited

JCMT BISTRO Observations: Magnetic Field Morphology of Bubbles Associated with NGC 6334

Mehrnoosh Tahani, Pierre Bastien, Ray S. Furuya +142

We study the HII regions associated with the NGC 6334 molecular cloud observed in the sub-millimeter and taken as part of the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO)…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 26 cited

The JCMT BISTRO-2 Survey: Magnetic Fields of the Massive DR21 Filament

Tao-Chung Ching, Keping Qiu, Di Li +154

We present 850 m dust polarization observations of the massive DR21 filament from the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) survey, using the POL-2 polarimeter a…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 31 cited

The JCMT BISTRO Survey: A Spiral Magnetic Field in a Hub-filament Structure, Monoceros R2

Jihye Hwang, Jongsoo Kim, Kate Pattle +157

We present and analyze observations of polarized dust emission at 850 m towards the central 1 pc 1 pc hub-filament structure of Monoceros R2 (Mon R2). The data are obta…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 41 cited

B-fields in Star-Forming Region Observations (BISTRO): Magnetic Fields in the Filamentary Structures of Serpens Main

Woojin Kwon, Kate Pattle, Sarah Sadavoy +149

We present 850 m polarimetric observations toward the Serpens Main molecular cloud obtained using the POL-2 polarimeter on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) as part of th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 23 cited

The JCMT BISTRO Survey: An 850/450m Polarization Study of NGC 2071IR in OrionB

A-Ran Lyo, Jongsoo Kim, Sarah Sadavoy +143

We present the results of simultaneous 450 m and 850 m polarization observations toward the massive star forming region NGC 2071IR, a target of the BISTRO (B-fields in Star-F…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 38 cited

Magnetic Fields in Massive Star-Forming Regions (MagMaR) II. Tomography Through Dust and Molecular Line Polarization in NGC 6334I(N)

Paulo C. Cortes, Patricio Sanhueza, Martin Houde +13

Here, we report ALMA detections of polarized emission from dust, CS(), and CS() toward the high-mass star-forming region NGC6334I(N). A…

astro-ph.GA2021

Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds -- Observation and Interpretation

Hua-bai Li

The Zeeman effect and dust grain alignment are two major methods for probing magnetic fields (B-fields) in molecular clouds, largely motivated by the study of star formation, as th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 36 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 84 cited

Dust polarized emission observations of NGC 6334; BISTRO reveals the details of the complex but organized magnetic field structure of the high-mass star-forming hub-filament network

D. Arzoumanian, R. Furuya, T. Hasegawa +145

[Abridged] Filaments and hubs have received special attention recently thanks to studies showing their role in star formation. While the column density and velocity structures of b…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 27 cited

Observations of magnetic fields surrounding LkH 101 taken by the BISTRO survey with JCMT-POL-2

Nguyen Bich Ngoc, Pham Ngoc Diep, Harriet Parsons +146

We report the first high spatial resolution measurement of magnetic fields surrounding LkH 101, a part of the Auriga-California molecular cloud. The observations were taken with…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 59 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 60 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 56 cited

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…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 16 cited

Probing the Turbulence Dissipation Range and Magnetic Field Strengths in Molecular Clouds. II. Directly Probing the Ion-neutral Decoupling Scale

Kwok Sun Tang, Hua-Bai Li, Wing-Kit Lee

The linewidth of ions has been observed to be systematically narrower than that of the coexisting neutrals in molecular clouds (Houde et al. 2000) and been interpreted as the signa…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 63 cited

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…