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Magnetic Fields and Star Formation: Imaging Polarimetry of Two Reflection Nebulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

S.M. Scarrott  and
T.M. Gledhill
S.M. Scarrott
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DE1 3LE, U.K.
T.M. Gledhill
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DE1 3LE, U.K.

Abstract

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Imaging polarimetry has shown that extended objects within star forming clouds may appear polarised due to passage of the light through an intervening region of magnetically aligned dust grains. Two such objects are considered here.

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. 325 - 326
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

References

Draper, P.W., 1988 Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Durham Google Scholar
Gledhill, T.M., Warren-Smith, R.F. & Scarrott, S.M. 1987 Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc. 229 643 Google Scholar
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