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使用NIR旋光法追踪IRDC G028 .23 $-$ 00.19的磁场

Tracing the Magnetic Field of IRDC G028.23$-$00.19 Using NIR Polarimetry

Sadia Hoq, D. P. Clemens, Andrés E. Guzmán, Lauren R. Cashman

摘要:

磁场(B)在红外暗云(IRDC)和大质量恒星形成中的重要性是一个正在进行的研究课题。我们研究了一个IRDC,G028.23-00.19的天空平面B场,以了解场和云之间的相互作用。我们使用近红外背景星光偏振探测B场,并进行了几次观测试验,以评估该领域的重要性。用Mimir仪器获得的偏振数据包括H波段和K波段观测,共计17,160个恒星测量。我们追踪了天空投影云伸长的天空平面B场形态。我们还发现了估计的B-场强度和气体体积密度之间的关系,我们计算了归一化的质量-磁通量比的估计。相对于云的B场方向没有显示出优选的对齐,但它确实表现出大规模的图案。天空平面B场强度范围为10至165 μG,B场强度与密度的关系遵循幂律,指数与2/3一致。质量-磁通量比也作为密度的函数而增加。B场与密度的相对取向和关系表明,B场在IRDC的形成中并不起动力学作用。然而,作为密度函数的质量通量比的增加表明动态重要的B场。因此,目前还不清楚B场是否影响了G28.23的形成。然而,IRDC的存在可能改变了局部B场形态。

英文摘要:

The importance of the magnetic (B) field in the formation of infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) and massive stars is an ongoing topic of investigation. We studied the plane-of-sky B field for one IRDC, G028.23-00.19, to understand the interaction between the field and the cloud. We used near-IR background starlight polarimetry to probe the B field and performed several observational tests to assess the field importance. The polarimetric data, taken with the Mimir instrument, consisted of H-band and K-band observations, totaling 17,160 stellar measurements. We traced the plane-of-sky B-field morphology with respect to the sky-projected cloud elongation. We also found the relationship between the estimated B-field strength and gas volume density, and we computed estimates of the normalized mass-to-magnetic flux ratio. The B-field orientation with respect to the cloud did not show a preferred alignment, but it did exhibit a large-scale pattern. The plane-of-sky B-field strengths ranged from 10 to 165 μG, and the B-field strength dependence on density followed a power law with an index consistent with 2/3. The mass-to-magnetic flux ratio also increased as a function of density. The relative orientations and relationship between the B field and density imply that the B field was not dynamically important in the formation of the IRDC. The increase in mass-to-flux ratio as a function of density, though, indicates a dynamically important B field. Therefore, it is unclear whether the B field influenced the formation of G28.23. However, it is likely that the presence of the IRDC changed the local B-field morphology.

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