NIR observations of GF 9/LDN 1082C field stars Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Clemens D.P.
  2. El-Batal A.M.
  3. Cerny C.
  4. Kressy S.
  5. Schroeder G.
  6. Pillai T.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The orientation of the magnetic field (B field) in the filamentary dark cloud GF 9 was traced from the periphery of the cloud into the L1082C dense core that contains the low-mass, low-luminosity Class 0 young stellar object (YSO) GF 9-2 (IRAS 20503+6006). This was done using SOFIA HAWC+ dust thermal emission polarimetry (TEP) at 216{mu}m in combination with Mimir near-infrared background starlight polarimetry (BSP) conducted in the H band (1.6{mu}m) and K band (2.2{mu}m). These observations were augmented with published I-band (0.77{mu}m) BSP and Planck 850{mu}m TEP to probe B-field orientations with offset from the YSO in a range spanning 6000au to 3pc. No strong B-field orientation change with offset was found, indicating remarkable uniformity of the B-field from the cloud edge to the YSO environs. This finding disagrees with weak-field models of cloud core and YSO formation. The continuity of inferred B-field orientations for both TEP and BSP probes is strong evidence that both are sampling a common B field that uniformly threads the cloud, core, and YSO region. Bayesian analysis of Gaia DR2 stars matched to the Mimir BSP stars finds a distance to GF 9 of 270+/-10pc. No strong wavelength dependence of B-field orientation angle was found, contrary to previous claims.

Keywords
  1. polarimetry
  2. infrared-photometry
  3. molecular-clouds
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. trigonometric-parallax
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2018ApJ...867...79C
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2019-11-04T15:31:07Z
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