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most citedInclination-Induced Polarization of Scattered Millimeter Radiation from Protoplanetary Disks: The Case of HL Tau

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astro-ph.SR2025

Multi-band ALMA Polarization Observations of BHB07-11 Reveal Aligned Dust Grains in Complex Spiral Arm Structures

Austen Fourkas, Leslie W. Looney, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin +8

Polarization-mode observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are powerful tools for studying the dust grain populations in circumstellar disks. Many…

astro-ph.GA2025

Magnetic Fields in the Pillars of Creation

Adwitiya Sarkar, Leslie W. Looney, Marc W. Pound +7

Due to dust grain alignment with magnetic fields, dust polarization observations of far-infrared emission from cold molecular clouds are often used to trace magnetic fields, allowi…

astro-ph.SR2025

L1448 IRS3B: Dust Polarization Aligned with Spiral Features, Tracing Gas Flows

Leslie W. Looney, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Zhi-Yun Li +11

Circumstellar disk dust polarization in the (sub)millimeter is, for the most part, not from dust grain alignment with magnetic fields but rather indicative of a combination of dust…

astro-ph.GA2024

Polarization Substructure in the Spiral-Dominated HH 111 Disk: Evidence for Grain Growth

Chin-Fei Lee, Zhi-Yun Li, Tao-Chung Ching +4

The HH 111 protostellar disk has recently been found to host a pair of spiral arms. Here we report the dust polarization results in the disk as well as the inner envelope around it…

astro-ph.EP2024

Badminton Birdie-Like Aerodynamic Alignment of Drifting Dust Grains by Subsonic Gaseous Flows in Protoplanetary Disks

Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Zhi-Yun Li, Haifeng Yang +4

Recent (sub)millimeter polarization observations of protoplanetary disks reveal toroidally aligned, effectively prolate dust grains large enough (at least ~100 m) to efficiently…

astro-ph.SR2024

Protoplanetary Disk Polarization at Multiple Wavelengths: Are Dust Populations Diverse?

Rachel E. Harrison, Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, Leslie W. Looney +4

Millimeter and sub-millimeter observations of continuum linear dust polarization provide insight into dust grain growth in protoplanetary disks, which are the progenitors of planet…