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Characterizing the correlation between column density structure and magnetic fields

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

J. D. Soler ,
P. Hennebelle ,
P. G. Martin ,
M. A. Miville-Deschenes ,
B. Netterfield  and
The BLASTpol Collaboration
J. D. Soler
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada email: [email protected]
P. Hennebelle
Affiliation:
Lab. de Radioastronomie, ENS et Observatoire de Paris, 75231 Paris, France
P. G. Martin
Affiliation:
CITA, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada
M. A. Miville-Deschenes
Affiliation:
Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, CNRS/Universit Paris-Sud 11, 91405 Orsay, France
B. Netterfield
Affiliation:
Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada email: [email protected]
The BLASTpol Collaboration
Affiliation:
http://blastexperiment.info
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Abstract

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We present a statistical tool to characterize correlation between the column density structure and the polarized emission from a molecular cloud. This tool uses the gradient as an estimator of the directionality of the structure in order to systematically relate the orientation of filaments and cores to the orientation of the magnetic field inferred from the polarization vectors.

Keywords

ISM: magnetic fieldsISM: cloudspolarizationsubmillimeter
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 10 , Highlights H16: Highlights of Astronomy , August 2012 , pp. 384
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2015 

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