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Magnetic Fields and Star Formation: Imaging Polarimetry of Two Reflection Nebulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

S.M. Scarrott
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DE1 3LE, U.K.
T.M. Gledhill
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DE1 3LE, U.K.

Abstract

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Imaging polarimetry has shown that extended objects within star forming clouds may appear polarised due to passage of the light through an intervening region of magnetically aligned dust grains. Two such objects are considered here.

Type
6. Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds, Dark Globules and in the Pre-Stellar and Circumstellar Environment
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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