Magnetic Fields in Star Formation

(Outline of Seminar presented by Alyssa Goodman at Cornell University, 4/23/99)

Interstellar Magnetic Fields (see Heiles et al. 1993 and McKee et al. 1993 & references therein)

Field Strength

Line width-size Relations and Magnetic Equipartition (see Myers & Goodman 1988a)

Predicted Equipartition Fields (see Myers & Goodman 1988b)

Zeeman Observations (e.g. Goodman et al. 1989; Crutcher et al. 1993 )

Field Structure (see Weintraub, Goodman & Akeson 1999)

Background Starlight Polarimetry

Optical (see Myers & Goodman 1991 & references therein)

Near-infrared (see Goodman et al. 1995 & references therein)

Thermal Emission Polarimetry

Single-Dish (e.g. Hildebrand 1995; Schleuning 1998)

Interferometric (e.g. Akeson et al. 1996; Rao et al. 1998)

Polarization-Extinction Relations (see Arce et al. 1998 & references therein)

Polarized Spectral-Line Emission (see Greaves et al. 1999 & references therein)

Connection of Interstellar to Circumstellar Field (e.g. Akeson & Carlstrom 1997)

Promises for the Future (see AAG "Fields of Dreams" talk)