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恒星形成区的银河系磁场效应

The Galactic Magnetic Field's Effect in Star-Forming Region

Ian W. Stephens, Leslie W. Looney, C. Darren Dowell, John E. Vaillancourt, Konstantinos Tassis

摘要:

我们调查银河系的磁场在恒星形成区域的影响,使用存档的350微米偏振数据52银河系恒星形成区域的赫兹偏振仪模块。将单个望远镜光束的偏振角和百分比合并,以便为每个源和复合源产生大规模的平均值。在超过80%的源,我们发现一个有意义的平均磁场方向,这意味着存在一个有序的磁场组件在这些源的规模。平均偏振角相对于银河系坐标进行了分析,以测试偏振百分比,偏振角,强度和银河系位置之间的相关性。没有发现相关性,这表明在致密的分子云中的磁场是从大规模的银河系磁场去耦。最后,我们证明了复合体中的磁场方向与天空中的随机分布是一致的。

英文摘要:

We investigate the effect of the Milky Way's magnetic field in star forming regions using archived 350 micron polarization data on 52 Galactic star formation regions from the Hertz polarimeter module. The polarization angles and percentages for individual telescope beams were combined in order to produce a large-scale average for each source and for complexes of sources. In more than 80% of the sources, we find a meaningful mean magnetic field direction, implying the existence of an ordered magnetic field component at the scale of these sources. The average polarization angles were analyzed with respect to the Galactic coordinates in order to test for correlations between polarization percentage, polarization angle, intensity, and Galactic location. No correlation was found, which suggests that the magnetic field in dense molecular clouds is decoupled from the large-scale Galactic magnetic field. Finally, we show that the magnetic field directions in the complexes are consistent with a random distribution on the sky.

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