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2018ApJ...855...92C - Astrophys. J., 855, 92-92 (2018/March-2)

ALMA's polarized view of 10 protostars in the Perseus Molecular Cloud.

COX E.G., HARRIS R.J., LOONEY L.W., LI Z.-Y., YANG H., TOBIN J.J. and STEPHENS I.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present 870 µm ALMA dust polarization observations of 10 young Class 0/I protostars in the Perseus Molecular Cloud. At ∼0.''35 (80 au) resolution, all of our sources show some degree of polarization, with most (9/10) showing significantly extended emission in the polarized continuum. Each source has incredibly intricate polarization signatures. In particular, all three disk-candidates have polarization vectors roughly along the minor axis, which is indicative of polarization produced by dust scattering. On ∼100 au scales, the polarization is at a relatively low level (<=1%) and is quite ordered. In sources with significant envelope emission, the envelope is typically polarized at a much higher (>=5%) level and has a far more disordered morphology. We compute the cumulative probability distributions for both the small (disk-scale) and large (envelope-scale) polarization percentage. We find that the two are intrinsically different, even after accounting for the different detection thresholds in the high/low surface brightness regions. We perform Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Anderson-Darling tests on the distributions of angle offsets of the polarization from the outflow axis. We find disk-candidate sources are different from the non-disk-candidate sources. We conclude that the polarization on the 100 au scale is consistent with the signature of dust scattering for disk-candidates and that the polarization on the envelope-scale in all sources may come from another mechanism, most likely magnetically aligned grains.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): ISM: magnetic fields - polarization - stars: formation - stars: protostars

Simbad objects: 19

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