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Inferring the nature of turbulence in star-forming regions with polarimetric observations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

D. Wiebe  and
W. D. Watson
D. Wiebe
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy of the RAS, Moscow, Russia email: [email protected]
W. D. Watson
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We consider the possibility to study the nature of MHD turbulence in star-forming regions with three different kinds of polarimetric data, namely, the linear polarization of starlight due to extinction by aligned dust grains, the polarized dust thermal radiation at far infrared or submillimeter wavelengths, and the linear polarization of molecular lines due to the Goldreich-Kylafis effect in the anisotropic MHD medium.

Keywords

ISM: magnetic fieldsturbulencepolarization
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S237: Triggered Star Formation in a Turbulent ISM , August 2006 , pp. 494
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

References

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