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A First Look at BISTRO Observations of the ρ Oph-A core
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A First Look at BISTRO Observations of the ρ Oph-A core

Jungmi Kwon, Yasuo Doi, Motohide Tamura, Masafumi Matsumura, Kate Pattle, David Berry, Sarah Sadavoy, Brenda C. Matthews, Derek Ward-Thompson, Tetsuo Hasegawa, …
Astrophysical Journal, 卷.859(1), 4
05/2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aabd82

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circumstellar matter ISM: individual objects (Ophiuchi) ISM: structure polarization radio continuum: ISM stars: formation Astronomy and Astrophysics Space and Planetary Science
We present 850 μm imaging polarimetry data of the ρ Oph-A core taken with the Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array-2 (SCUBA-2) and its polarimeter (POL-2) as part of our ongoing survey project, -fields In STar forming RegiOns (BISTRO). The polarization vectors are used to identify the orientation of the magnetic field projected on the plane of the sky at a resolution of 0.01 pc. We identify 10 subregions with distinct polarization fractions and angles in the 0.2 pc ρ Oph-A core; some of them can be part of a coherent magnetic field structure in the ρ Oph region. The results are consistent with previous observations of the brightest regions of ρ Oph-A, where the degrees of polarization are at a level of a few percent, but our data reveal for the first time the magnetic field structures in the fainter regions surrounding the core where the degree of polarization is much higher (>5%). A comparison with previous near-infrared polarimetric data shows that there are several magnetic field components that are consistent at near-infrared and submillimeter wavelengths. Using the Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi method, we also derive magnetic field strengths in several subcore regions, which range from approximately 0.2 to 5 mG. We also find a correlation between the magnetic field orientations projected on the sky and the core centroid velocity components.

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