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磁取向晶粒的发射和散射引起的圆盘极化:NGC 1333 IRAS4A1的情况

Disk Polarization From Both Emission and Scattering of Magnetically Aligned Grains: The Case of NGC 1333 IRAS4A1

Haifeng Yang, Zhi-Yun Li, Leslie W. Looney, Erin G. Cox, John Tobin, Ian W. Stephens, Dominque M. Segura-Cox, Robert J. Harris

摘要:

以毫米(和厘米)为单位的尘埃极化已经被绘制在越来越多的年轻恒星周围的圆盘上。它通常被认为是来自磁性排列(非球形)颗粒的发射,但也可以由尘埃散射产生。我们提出了一个半解析理论的磁盘偏振,包括方向发射和散射,强调它们的相对重要性,以及它们是如何受到磁盘倾斜。对于面向磁盘,发射和散射往往会产生在径向方向上的偏振,使它们难以区分,虽然散射诱导的偏振可以切换到方位角方向,如果入射辐射在磁盘平面的径向方向上足够强。光盘倾斜影响的偏振从发射和散射不同,特别是在主轴上,在边缘上的限制,前者消失,而后者达到一个偏振分数大到1/3。来自两种竞争机制的偏振倾向于在主轴上相互抵消,在某些条件下产生两个低偏振“孔”(中心的每一侧一个)。我们找到了诱人的证据,至少有一个这样的“洞”在NGC1333 IRAS4A1,其偏振观察到在8毫米的100 AU规模是一个模式为主的散射靠近中心和方向发射的外部区域。如果这是真的,它将意味着不仅在磁盘尺度上存在磁场,而且它足够强大,可以排列大的,可能是毫米大小的颗粒。

英文摘要:

Dust polarization in millimeter (and centimeter) has been mapped in disks around an increasing number of young stellar objects. It is usually thought to come from emission by magnetically aligned (non-spherical) grains, but can also be produced by dust scattering. We present a semi-analytic theory of disk polarization that includes both the direction emission and scattering, with an emphasis on their relative importance and how they are affected by the disk inclination. For face-on disks, both emission and scattering tend to produce polarization in the radial direction, making them difficult to distinguish, although the scattering-induced polarization can switch to the azimuthal direction if the incident radiation is beamed strongly enough in the radial direction in the disk plane. Disk inclination affects the polarizations from emission and scattering differently, especially on the major axis where, in the edge-on limit, the former vanishes while the latter reaches a polarization fraction as large as 1/3. The polarizations from the two competing mechanisms tend to cancel each other on the major axis, producing two low polarization "holes" (one on each side of the center) under certain conditions. We find tantalizing evidence for at least one such "hole" in NGC1333 IRAS4A1, whose polarization observed at 8 mm on the 100 AU scale is indicative of a pattern dominated by scattering close to the center and by direction emission in the outer region. If true, it would imply not only that a magnetic field exists on the disk scale, but that it is strong enough to align large, possibly mm-sized, grains.

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