Star-forming gas clouds are strongly magnetized, and their ionization fractions are high
enough to place them close to the regime of ideal magnetohydrodyamics on all but the …

The magnetic field is a key ingredient in the recipe of star formation. However, the
importance of the magnetic field in the early stages of the formation of low-and high-mass …

A full understanding of high-mass star formation requires the study of one of the most elusive
components of the energy balance in the interstellar medium: magnetic fields. We report …

We present a study of the relative orientation between the magnetic field projected onto the
plane of sky (B⊥) on scales down to 0.4 pc, inferred from the polarized thermal emission of …

The star-forming efficiency of dense gas is thought to be set within cores by outflow and
radiative feedback. We use magnetohydrodynamic simulations to investigate the relation …

Star formation is a multi-scale, multi-physics problem ranging from the size scale of
molecular clouds (∼ 10 ∼10 s pc) down to the size scales of dense prestellar cores (∼ 0.1 …

We present 870 μm ALMA observations of polarized dust emission toward the Class II
protoplanetary disk IM Lup. We find that the orientation of the polarized emission is along the …

Context. The transport of angular momentum is fundamental during the formation of low-
mass stars; too little removal and rotation ensures stellar densities are never reached, too …

Context. As material from an infalling protostellar envelope hits the forming disk, an
accretion shock may develop which could (partially) alter the envelope material entering the …

Recent developments of the velocity gradient technique (VGT) show that the velocity
gradients provide a reliable tracing of the magnetic field direction in turbulent plasmas. In …