Characterizing the correlation between column density structure and magnetic fields
Abstract
We present a statistical tool to characterize correlation between the column density structure and the polarized emission from a molecular cloud. This tool uses the gradient as an estimator of the directionality of the structure in order to systematically relate the orientation of filaments and cores to the orientation of the magnetic field inferred from the polarization vectors.
- Publication:
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Highlights of Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- March 2015
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2015HiA....16..384S
- Keywords:
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- ISM: magnetic fields;
- ISM: clouds;
- polarization;
- submillimeter