Coudé, Simon, Bastien, Pierre, Houde, Martin, Sadavoy, Sarah, Friesen, Rachel, Francesco, James Di, Johnstone, Doug, Mairs, Steve, Hasegawa, Tetsuo, Kwon, Woojin, Lai, Shih-Ping, Qiu, Keping, Ward-Thompson, Derek, Berry, David, Chen, Michael Chun-Yuan, Fiege, Jason, Franzmann, Erica, Hatchell, Jennifer, Lacaille, Kevin, Matthews, Brenda C., Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald H., Pon, Andy, André, Philippe, Arzoumanian, Doris, Aso, Yusuke, Byun, Do-Young, Eswaraiah, Chakali, Chen, Huei-Ru, Chen, Wen Ping, Ching, Tao-Chung, Cho, Jungyeon, Choi, Minho, Chrysostomou, Antonio, Chung, Eun Jung, Doi, Yasuo, Drabek-Maunder, Emily ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Abstract
We present the POL-2 850 μm linear polarization map of the Barnard 1 clump in the Perseus molecular cloud complex from the B-fields In STar-forming Region Observations survey at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. We find a trend of decreasing polarization fraction as a function of total intensity, which we link to depolarization effects toward higher-density regions of the cloud. We then use the polarization data at 850 μm to infer the plane-of-sky orientation of the large-scale magnetic field in Barnard 1. This magnetic field runs north–south across most of the cloud, with the exception of B1-c, where it turns more east–west. From the dispersion of polarization angles, we calculate a turbulence correlation length of 5.0 ± 2farcs5 (1500 au) and a turbulent-to-total magnetic energy ratio of 0.5 ± 0.3 inside the cloud. We combine this turbulent-to-total magnetic energy ratio with observations of NH3 molecular lines from the Green Bank Ammonia Survey to estimate the strength of the plane-of-sky component of the magnetic field through the Davis–Chandrasekhar–Fermi method. With a plane-of-sky amplitude of 120 ± 60 μG and a criticality criterion λ c = 3.0 ± 1.5, we find that Barnard 1 is a supercritical molecular cloud with a magnetic field nearly dominated by its turbulent component.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Published Online |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | Physics and Astronomy |
ISSN: | 15384357 |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 4 June 2019 |
Date of Acceptance: | 18 April 2019 |
Last Modified: | 05 Dec 2023 02:49 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/123131 |
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