J/A+A/541/A52ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/541/A52doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.35410052CDSVoshchinnikov N.V.Henning T.Prokopjeva M.S.Das H.K.2017-10-16T14:58:38Z2012-09-19T14:48:37ZCDS support team

CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France

cds-question@unistra.frinterstellar-mediumpolarimetryWe compiled the polarimetric data for a sample of lines of sight with known abundances of Mg, Si, and Fe. We correlated the degree of interstellar polarization P and polarization efficiency (the ratio of P to the colour excess E(B-V) or extinction AV) with dust phase abundances. We detect an anticorrelation between P and the dust phase abundance of iron in non silicate-containing grains [Fe(rest)/H]_d_, a correlation between P and the abundance of Si, and no correlation between P/E(B-V) or P/AV and dust phase abundances. These findings can be explained if mainly the silicate grains aligned by the radiative mechanism are responsible for the observed interstellar linear polarization.2012A&A...541A..52Vhttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/541/A52CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toII/226 : Stellar polarization catalogs agglomeration (Heiles, 2000)J/AJ/105/258 : UBVRI polarimetry in Car Nebula (Marraco+ 1993)J/A+A/384/1050 : Interstellar polarization. VI. (Berdyugin+, 2002)J/A+A/489/911 : Polarimetric measures of selected variable stars (Elias+ 2008)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/541/A52https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/541/A52http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/541/A52https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/A+A/541/A52https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/A+A/541/A52http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/A+A/541/A52GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/A+A/541/A52/table1 (Polarization of stars with known dust phase abundances)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/541/A52/table1?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/541/A52/table1?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/541/A52/table1?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true4.573906161.72705420.0055555555555555566/1060 1196 1198 1504 1539 1550 1554 1558 1577 1633 1766 2909 3030 3053 3214 3245 3247 3256 3430 3585 5506 6891 9696 13255 13268 13289 13557 13729 14167 14179 14197 14220 14240 14249 14305 14311 14630 14643 14777 14805 14810 14824 15369 15376 15392 15406 15478-15479 15580 15611 15631 15656 15662-15663 15745 15748 15768 18928 19009 20107 20613 20940 21233 21401 21438-21439 21635 21646-21647 22033 22249 22579 22854-22855 22862 22884 22992 22994 23637 23714 23717 23979 23998 24338 24340 24370 24463 24513 25659 25988 27095 27498 28700 28890 28959 29040 29089 29463 29522 29600 29876 29893 30709 30722 30818 31705 33652 36043 37209 37231 37323 37331-37334 37339 37662 37676 37763 37822 37871 37877 37893 37897 37930 37963 38016 38024 39170 39201 39209 39216 39281 39327 39334 39374 39775 39803 39907 39916 41103 41510 41528 41598 41630 41653 41655 41692 41696 41750 42080 42356 42366 42383 42405 42408 42416-42417 42470 42483 42609 42618 42652 42672 42791 42947 42977 42994 43014 43024 43033 43040 43045 43137 43308 43365 44100 44305 44312 44360 44366 44389 44717 45105 47648 47781https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/A+A/541/A52?format=asciiOpticaldefaultJ/A+A/541/A52/table1Polarization of stars with known dust phase abundancesrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintSeq[1/196] Sequential numbermeta.recordintn_Seq[vsmi ] Note on the observation (1)meta.notecharStarStar namemeta.id;meta.maincharGLONGalactic longitudedegpos.galactic.lonGLATGalactic latitudedegpos.galactic.latfloatSpTypeMK spectral typesrc.spTypecharDistHeliocentric distancepcpos.distance;pos.heliocentricintE(B-V)Redenningmagphot.color.excessfloatAV? Absorption on V bandmagphot.mag;em.opt.Vfloatnullablee_AV? rms uncertainty on AVmagstat.errorfloatnullableP? Degree of interstellar polarization%phys.polarizationfloatnullablee_P? rms uncertainty on P%stat.errorfloatnullableP/E? Polarization efficiency P/E(B-V)%phys.polarizationfloatnullablee_P/E? rms uncertainty on P/E(B-V)%stat.errorfloatnullableP/A? Polarization efficiency P/AV%phys.polarizationfloatnullablee_P/A? rms uncertainty on P/AV%stat.errorfloatnullable[Fer/H]d? Dust phase abundance of iron in non silicate-containing grains, [Fe(rest)/H]d = [Fe/H]d-(2[Si/H]d-[Mg/H]d)phys.abund.Fefloatnullablee_[Fer/H]d? rms uncertainty on [Fe(rest)/H]dstat.error;phys.abundfloatnullableRef? Reference (2)meta.ref;pos.frameintnullableSimbadSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.refchar_RARight Ascension (J2000) from SIMBAD (not part of the original data)degpos.eq.ra;meta.main_DEDeclination (J2000) from SIMBAD (not part of the original data)degpos.eq.dec;meta.main