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The Magnetic Field in the Perseus Molecular Cloud Complex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

A.A. Goodman ,
P.C. Myers ,
P. Bastien ,
R.M. Crutcher ,
C. Heiles ,
I. Kazès  and
T.H. Troland
A.A. Goodman
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02188, USA
P.C. Myers
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02188, USA
P. Bastien
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal, Canada
R.M. Crutcher
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, USA
C. Heiles
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, USA
I. Kazès
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France
T.H. Troland
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky, USA

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In Figure 1, we present a map of the polarization of background starlight in the Perseus region (Goodman, Bastien, Myers, and Menard 1989) superposed on contours of integrated 13CO emission (Bachiller and Cernicharo 1986). The polarization vectors map the plane-of-the-sky field (B⊥), assuming as usual that the observed polarization is the result of selective extinction by magnetically aligned dust grains associated with the molecular clouds between the observer and background stars (e.g. Dolginov 1989).

Type
6. Magnetic Fields in Molecular Clouds, Dark Globules and in the Pre-Stellar and Circumstellar Environment
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 140: Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields , 1990 , pp. 319 - 320
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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