Multi-Scale Analysis of Magnetic Fields in Filamentary Molecular Clouds in Orion A

Details Multi-Scale Analysis of Magnetic Fields in Filamentary Molecular Clouds in Orion A Multi-Scale Analysis of Magnetic Fields in Filamentary Molecular Clouds in Orion A

2011-08-30

arxiv.org/abs/1108.5925v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

53 pages, 21 figures, 7 tables, Accepted in the Astrophysical Journal

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New visible and K-band polarization measurements on stars surrounding molecular clouds in Orion A and stars in the BN vicinity are presented. Our results confirm that magnetic fields located inside the Orion A molecular clouds and in their close neighborhood are spatially connected. On and around the BN object, we measured the angular offsets between the K-band polarization data and available submm data. We find high values of the polarization degree, P_{K}, and of the optical depth, \tau_{K}, close to an angular offset position of 90^{\circ} whereas lower values of P_{K} and \tau_{K} are observed for smaller angular offsets. We interpret these results as evidence for the presence of various magnetic field components toward lines of sight in the vicinity of BN. On a larger scale, we measured the distribution of angular offsets between available H-band polarization data and the same submm data set. Here we find an increase of with angular offset which we interpret as a rotation of the magnetic field by \lesssim 60^{\circ}. This trend generalizes previous results on small scale toward and around lines of sight to BN and is consistent with a twist of the magnetic field on a larger scale towards OMC-1. A comparison of our results with several other studies suggests that a two-component magnetic field, maybe helical, could be wrapping the OMC-1 filament.

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