Interstellar dust grain alignment

BG Andersson, A Lazarian… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Interstellar polarization at optical-to-infrared wavelengths is known to arise from asymmetric
dust grains aligned with the magnetic field. This effect provides a potentially powerful probe …

Resolving the Polarized Dust Emission of the Disk around the Massive Star Powering the HH 80–81 Radio Jet

JM Girart, M Fernández-López, ZY Li… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Here we present deep (16 μJy beam− 1), very high (40 mas) angular resolution 1.14 mm,
polarimetric, Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations toward the …

Grain alignment: Role of radiative torques and paramagnetic relaxation

A Lazarian, BG Andersson, T Hoang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.03696, 2015 - arxiv.org
Polarization arising from aligned dust grains presents a unique opportunity to study
magnetic fields in the diffuse interstellar medium and molecular clouds. Polarization from …

Studying magnetic fields and dust in M17 using polarized thermal dust emission observed by SOFIA/HAWC+

TD Hoang, NB Ngoc, PN Diep, T Hoang… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the highest spatial resolution measurement to date of magnetic fields (B-fields)
in M17 using thermal dust polarization measurements taken by SOFIA/HAWC+ centered at a …

The JCMT BISTRO survey: an 850/450 μm polarization study of NGC 2071IR in Orion B

AR Lyo, J Kim, S Sadavoy, D Johnstone… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of simultaneous 450 μm and 850 μm polarization observations
toward the massive star-forming region NGC 2071IR, a target of the BISTRO (B-fields in …

First observation of the submillimeter polarization spectrum in a translucent molecular cloud

PC Ashton, PAR Ade, FE Angilè… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Polarized emission from aligned dust is a crucial tool for studies of magnetism in the ISM, but
a troublesome contaminant for studies of cosmic microwave background polarization. In …

Submillimeter polarization spectrum in the vela c molecular cloud

NN Gandilo, PAR Ade, FE Angilè… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Polarization maps of the Vela C molecular cloud were obtained at 250, 350, and 500 μm
during the 2012 flight of the balloon-borne telescope BLASTPol. These measurements are …

The far-infrared polarization spectrum of ρ Ophiuchi a from HAWC+/SOFIA observations

FP Santos, DT Chuss, CD Dowell… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on polarimetric maps made with HAWC+/SOFIA toward ρ Oph A, the densest
portion of the ρ Ophiuchi molecular complex. We employed HAWC+ bands C (89 μm) and D …

Submillimeter polarization spectrum of the carina nebula

JA Shariff, PAR Ade, FE Angilè, P Ashton… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Linear polarization maps of the Carina Nebula were obtained at 250, 350, and 500 μm
during the 2012 flight of the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for …

Far-infrared polarization spectrum of the OMC-1 star-forming region

JM Michail, PC Ashton, MG Berthoud… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …