Polarized Light from Star-Forming Regions

7/24/98


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Polarized Light from Star-Forming Regions

What good is it?

All since PPIII...

Polarization 101

PPT Slide

PPT Slide

PPT Slide

What’s good where (now)?

The Galaxy

Naïveté: The way we once thought things might be...

Dark Cloud Complexes: 1-10 pc scales

Dark Cloud Complexes: 1-10 pc scales

Cold Dark Clouds: Looking Inside(?)

Cold Dark Clouds: (Not) Looking Inside

PPT Slide

Dark Cloud Complexes: 1-10 pc scales

“Go no further than AV~1.3 mag.”

Dark Cloud Complexes: 1-10 pc scales 3D MHD simulation of Gammie, Stone & Ostriker (in prep.)

Thermal Emission Polarimetry

Massive Star-Forming Regions

Massive Star-Forming Regions: Thermal Emission Polarimetry

Massive Star-Forming Regions: Orion

Massive Star-Forming Regions: Orion

Zooming on Orion BN/KL

What’s the field doing?

What’s the field doing?

What’s the field doing?

“p-AV” in Star-Forming Regions: What does it mean?

“p-AV” in Star-Forming Regions: Grain Alignment Issues

“p-AV” in Star-Forming Regions: What does it mean?

Thermal Emission Polarimetry around Individual YSO’s & Outflows

Outflow along the B-field? (Yes, maybe.)

Scattered-Light Polarimetry around Individual YSO’s & Outflows

Identification of Driving Source (in L1287)

Will the true source please stand up?

Modeling Circumstellar Density Structure

Grain Properties from Polarimetry

PPV: What’s good where (then)?

Protostars & Planets V

Relation to the Large-Scale field

Massive Star-Forming Regions: Orion

M17

Author: Alyssa A. Goodman

Email: agoodman@cfa.harvard.edu

Home Page: cfa-www.harvard.edu/~agoodman

Other information:
Presentation presented at Protostars & Planets IV, Santa Barbara, CA, July 6, 1998

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