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arXiv 2007.04923astro-ph.GAastro-ph.COastro-ph.SR
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使用HAWC + FIR极化数据绘制的OMC-1磁场强度图

Maps of Magnetic Field Strength in the OMC-1 using HAWC+ FIR Polarimetric data

Jordan A. Guerra, David T. Chuss, C. Darren Dowell, Martin Houde, Joseph M. Michail, Javad Siah, Edward J. Wollack

摘要:

远红外(FIR)尘埃偏振测量通过追踪与磁场方向部分一致的尘埃粒子的偏振辐射,可以研究星际磁场。高质量极化数据的出现允许使用统计方法来提取磁场的方向和大小。在这项工作中,Davis-Prasekhar-Fermi技术被用来制作猎户座分子云(OMC-1)中磁场的天平面(POS)分量的地图,通过结合来自HAWC+/SOFIA的53,89,154和214 \micron \的偏振地图与密度和速度色散的地图。此外,地图的偏振角的局部色散结合塞曼测量使用,以估计的视线(LOS)的字段的分量的强度的地图。结合这些地图,有关的三维磁场配置(沿视线集成)的信息推断OMC-1地区。在BN/KL天体附近观测到的POS磁场强度高达2 mG,而OMC-1棒显示的磁场强度高达几百$μ$ G。这些磁场分量的估计值被用来制作质量与磁通量比($M/Φ$)的地图-一种用于探测分子云中恒星形成条件的度量标准-并确定OMC-1中的亚临界和超临界区域。这样的地图可以提供宝贵的输入和比较MHD模拟恒星形成过程中的分子云的结构。

英文摘要:

Far-infrared (FIR) dust polarimetry enables the study of interstellar magnetic fields via tracing of the polarized emission from dust grains that are partially aligned with the direction of the field. The advent of high quality polarimetric data has permitted the use of statistical methods to extract both the direction and magnitude of the magnetic field. In this work, the Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi technique is used to make maps of the plane-of-sky (POS) component of the magnetic field in the Orion Molecular Cloud (OMC-1) by combining polarization maps at 53, 89, 154 and 214 \micron\ from HAWC+/SOFIA with maps of density and velocity dispersion. In addition, maps of the local dispersion of polarization angles are used in conjuction with Zeeman measurements to estimate a map of the strength of the line-of-sight (LOS) component of the field. Combining these maps, information about the three-dimensional magnetic field configuration (integrated along the line-of-sight) is inferred over the OMC-1 region. POS magnetic field strengths of up to 2 mG are observed near the BN/KL object, while the OMC-1 bar shows strengths of up to a few hundred $μ$G. These estimates of the magnetic field components are used to produce maps of the mass-to-magnetic flux ratio ($M/Φ$) -- a metric for probing the conditions for star formation in molecular clouds -- and determine regions of sub- and super-criticality in OMC-1. Such maps can provide invaluable input and comparison to MHD simulations of star formation processes in filamentary structures of molecular clouds.

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