Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993mnras.262..456a&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 262, no. 2, p. 456-464.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Accretion Disks, Astronomical Polarimetry, Infrared Astronomy, Interstellar Magnetic Fields, Molecular Clouds, Star Formation, Cosmic Dust, Interstellar Matter
Scientific paper
Spectropolarimetry between 8 and 13 micron provides information on the chemical and physical nature of dust grains and also on the direction of the transverse component of an aligning ambient magnetic field. The field directions found by this method along the line of sight to putative protostars and young stellar objects are compared with the directions of molecular flows and the orientations of disk- or toroid-like structures associated with the sources. There is a strong correlation, though so far with limited statistics, between the local magnetic field and the orientation of the disklike structures: the magnetic field is found to lie in the plane of the disk in these predominantly high-mass objects. The implication of this finding with respect to hydromagnetic models of the molecular flows is discussed.
Aitken David K.
Roche Patrick F.
Smith Craig H.
Wright Christopher M.
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