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无星地核III的磁场畸变:FeSt 1-457中的极化-消光关系

Distortion of Magnetic Fields in a Starless Core III: Polarization--Extinction Relationship in FeSt 1-457

Ryo Kandori, Motohide Tamura, Tetsuya Nagata, Kohji Tomisaka, Nobuhiko Kusakabe, Yasushi Nakajima, Jungmi Kwon, Takahiro Nagayama

摘要:

尘埃偏振和消光之间的关系,确定了冷的致密无星分子云核心FeSt 1-457的基础上,在近红外波长的二向色消光背景恒星偏振。由于已知的(三维)磁场结构,通过考虑(a)减去环境极化分量,(b)倾斜的畸变磁场的去极化效应,以及(c)磁芯的磁倾斜角,校正了从磁芯观察到的极化。经过这些修正后,在直到$A_V \approx 20$ mag的范围内,得到了地核的偏振和消光之间的线性关系。经过(a)至(c)的修正后,初始偏振-消光图发生了显著变化,相关系数从0.71改善到0.79。这些修正会影响对观测数据的理论解释。最终得到的偏振-消光关系的斜率为$P_H / E_{H-K_s} = 11.00 \pm 0.72$ $\%$ ${\rm mag}^{-1}$,接近于星际偏振效率的统计估计上限(Jones 1989)。这种一致性表明,星际偏振效率的上限可能取决于观测偏振天体的视角。

英文摘要:

The relationship between dust polarization and extinction was determined for the cold dense starless molecular cloud core FeSt 1-457 based on the background star polarimetry of dichroic extinction at near-infrared wavelengths. Owing to the known (three-dimensional) magnetic field structure, the observed polarizations from the core were corrected by considering (a) the subtraction of the ambient polarization component, (b) the depolarization effect of inclined distorted magnetic fields, and (c) the magnetic inclination angle of the core. After these corrections, a linear relationship between polarization and extinction was obtained for the core in the range up to $A_V \approx 20$ mag. The initial polarization vs. extinction diagram changed dramatically after the corrections of (a) to (c), with the correlation coefficient being refined from 0.71 to 0.79. These corrections should affect the theoretical interpretation of the observational data. The slope of the finally obtained polarization--extinction relationship is $P_H / E_{H-K_s} = 11.00 \pm 0.72$ $\%$ ${\rm mag}^{-1}$, which is close to the statistically estimated upper limit of the interstellar polarization efficiency (Jones 1989). This consistency suggests that the upper limit of interstellar polarization efficiency might be determined by the observational viewing angle toward polarized astronomical objects.

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