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When Magnetic Fields Sculpt the Sky: The Riegel-Crutcher cloud in optical polarization
Gabriel A. P. Franco, Mayara Gomides, Zhi-Yun Li +2
Filamentary structures are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium, yet the extent to which magnetic fields influence the morphology of cold atomic gas remains an open question. The…
The Magnetic Field in the Milky Way Filamentary Bone G47
Ian W. Stephens, Philip C. Myers, Catherine Zucker +21
Star formation primarily occurs in filaments where magnetic fields are expected to be dynamically important. The largest and densest filaments trace spiral structure within galaxie…
The role of the magnetic field in the fragmentation process: the case of G14.225-0.506
N. Añez-López, G. Busquet, P. M. Koch +8
B-fields are predicted to play a role in the formation of filamentary structures and their fragmentation process. We aim at investigating the role of the B-field in the process of…
HAWC+ Far-Infrared Observations of the Magnetic Field Geometry in M51 and NGC 891
Terry Jay Jones, Jin-Ah Kim, C. Darren Dowell +29
SOFIA HAWC+ polarimetry at $154~\micron$ is reported for the face-on galaxy M51 and the edge-on galaxy NGC 891. For M51, the polarization vectors generally follow the spiral patter…
Far-Infrared Polarization Spectrum of the OMC-1 Star-Forming Region
Joseph M. Michail, Peter C. Ashton, Marc G. Berthoud +12
We analyze the wavelength dependence of the far-infrared polarization fraction toward the OMC-1 star forming region using observations from HAWC+/SOFIA at 53, 89, 154, and 214 m…
Understanding polarized dust emission from Ophiuchi A in light of grain alignment and disruption by radiative torques
Le Ngoc Tram, Thiem Hoang, Hyeseung Lee +5
The alignment of dust grains with the ambient magnetic field produces polarization of starlight as well as thermal dust emission. Using the archival SOFIA/HAWC+ polarimetric data o…
SOFIA/HAWC+ traces the magnetic fields in NGC 1068
E. Lopez-Rodriguez, C. D. Dowell, T. J. Jones +21
We report the first detection of galactic spiral structure by means of thermal emission from magnetically aligned dust grains. Our 89 m polarimetric imaging of NGC 1068 with the…
The far-infrared polarization spectrum of Rho Ophiuchi A from HAWC+/SOFIA observations
Fabio P. Santos, David T. Chuss, C. Darren Dowell +23
We report on polarimetric maps made with HAWC+/SOFIA toward Rho Oph A, the densest portion of the Rho Ophiuchi molecular complex. We employed HAWC+ bands C (89 m) and D (154 …
SOFIA Far Infrared Imaging Polarimetry of M82 and NGC 253: Exploring the Super-Galactic Wind
Terry Jay Jones, C. Darren Dowell, Enrique Lopez Rodriguez +22
We present Far-Infrared polarimetry observations of M82 at 53 and and NGC 253 at , which were taken with HAWC+ in polarimetry mode on the Stratospheric Ob…
HAWC+/SOFIA Multiwavelength Polarimetric Observations of OMC-1
David T. Chuss, B-G Andersson, John Bally +35
We report new polarimetric and photometric maps of the massive star-forming region OMC-1 using the HAWC+ instrument on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).…
Submillimeter Polarization Spectrum of the Carina Nebula
Jamil A. Shariff, Peter A. R. Ade, Francesco E. Angilè +27
Linear polarization maps of the Carina Nebula were obtained at 250, 350, and 500 m during the 2012 flight of the BLASTPol balloon-borne telescope. These measurements are combine…
Mapping the Interstellar Magnetic Field Around the Heliosphere with Polarized Starlight
P. C. Frisch, A. B. Berdyugin, V. Piirola +20
Starlight that becomes linearly polarized by magnetically aligned dust grains provides a viable diagnostic of the interstellar magnetic field (ISMF). A survey is underway to map th…
The emission and distribution of dust of the torus of NGC 1068
Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez, Lindsay Fuller, Almudena Alonso-Herrero +14
We present observations of NGC 1068 covering the m wavelength range using FORCAST and HAWC+ onboard SOFIA. Using these observations, high-angular resolution infrared…
Relative Alignment Between the Magnetic Field and Molecular Gas Structure in the Vela C Giant Molecular Cloud using Low and High Density Tracers
Laura M. Fissel, Peter A. R. Ade, Francesco E. Angilè +37
We compare the magnetic field orientation for the young giant molecular cloud Vela C inferred from 500-m polarization maps made with the BLASTPol balloon-borne polarimeter to th…
Optical Polarimetric and Near-Infrared Photometric Study of the RCW95 Galactic HII Region
Jaime Vargas-González, Alexandre Roman-Lopes, Fabio Pereira Santos +4
We carried out an optical polarimetric study in the direction of the RCW95 star forming region in order to probe the sky-projected magnetic field structure by using the distributio…
First Observation of the Submillimeter Polarization Spectrum in a Translucent Molecular Cloud
Peter C. Ashton, Peter A. R. Ade, Francesco E. Angilè +27
Polarized emission from aligned dust is a crucial tool for studies of magnetism in the ISM and a troublesome contaminant for studies of CMB polarization. In each case, an understan…
On the relation between the column density structures and the magnetic field orientation in the Vela C molecular complex
J. D. Soler, P. A. R. Ade, F. E. Angilè +27
We statistically evaluate the relative orientation between gas column density structures, inferred from Herschel submillimetre observations, and the magnetic field projected on the…
Magnetically Dominated Parallel Interstellar Filaments at the Infrared Dark Cloud G14.225-0.506
Fabio P. Santos, Gemma Busquet, Gabriel A. P. Franco +2
The G14.225-0.506 infrared dark cloud (IRDC G14.2) displays a remarkable complex of parallel dense molecular filaments projected on the plane of the sky. Previous dust emission and…
Comparing submillimeter polarized emission with near-infrared polarization of background stars for the Vela C molecular cloud
Fabio P. Santos, Peter A. R. Ade, Francesco E. Angile +27
We present a large-scale combination of near-infrared (near-IR) interstellar polarization data from background starlight with polarized emission data at submillimeter (sub-mm) wave…
Balloon-Borne Submillimeter Polarimetry of the Vela C Molecular Cloud: Systematic Dependence of Polarization Fraction on Column Density and Local Polarization-Angle Dispersion
Laura M. Fissel, Peter A. R. Ade, Francesco E. Angilè +27
We present results for Vela C obtained during the 2012 flight of the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry (BLASTPol). We mapped polarized intensity…
Optical/Near-IR Polarization Survey of Sh 2-29: Magnetic Fields, Dense Cloud Fragmentations and Anomalous Dust Grain Sizes
Fábio P. Santos, Gabriel A. P. Franco, Alexandre Roman-Lopes +2
Sh 2-29 is a conspicuous star-forming region marked by the presence of massive embedded stars as well as several notable interstellar structures. In this research, our goals were t…
Unveiling a network of parallel filaments in the Infrared Dark Cloud G14.225-0.506
Gemma Busquet, Qizhou Zhang, Aina Palau +10
We present the results of combined NH3(1,1) and (2,2) line emission observed with the Very Large Array and the Effelsberg 100m telescope of the Infrared Dark Cloud G14.225-0.506. T…
A young stellar cluster within the RCW41 HII region: deep NIR photometry and Optical/NIR polarimetry
Fábio P. Santos, Alexandre Roman-Lopes, Gabriel A. P. Franco
The RCW41 star-forming region is embedded within the Vela Molecular Ridge, hosting a massive stellar cluster surrounded by a conspicuous HII region. Understanding the role of inter…
Optical Polarization Mapping toward the interface between the Local Cavity and Loop I
Fábio P. Santos, Wagner Corradi, Wilson Reis
The Sun is located inside an extremely low density and quite irregular volume of the interstellar medium, known as the Local Cavity (LC). It has been widely believed that some kind…