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Matthews, Tristan; Ade, P.; Angilè, F. E.; Benton, S. J.; Chapman, N. L.; Devlin, M. J.; Dober, B.; Fissel, L. M.; Fukui, Y.; Gandilo, N.; Gundersen, J. O.; Hargrave, P.; Galitzki, N. B.; Klein, J.; Korotkov, A.; Moncelsi, L.; Mroczkowski, T.; Netterfield, C.; Novak, G.; Nutter, D.; Olmi, L.; Poidevin, F.; Savini, G.; Scott, D.; Shariff, J.; Soler, J. D.; Thomas, N. E.; Truch, M.; Tucker, C. E.; Tucker, G. S.; Ward-Thompson, D.
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #222, #110.04
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2013
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Description
We present here 350 and 500 micron polarization observations of the
Lupus I molecular cloud taken during the 2010 BLASTPol Antarctic flight.
Lupus I is a nearby, isolated, young, and filamentary molecular cloud
making it an ideal target to test magnetically regulated star formation
models. In the presence of intermediate to strong magnetic fields (in
comparison to turbulence), these models predict the formation of large
filaments extended perpendicular to the local magnetic field direction
as gas preferentially collapses along the field lines. We compare the
BLASTPol polarization observations with previous optical polarimetry and
find a uniform large-scale field direction from low to high density in
Lupus I, consistent with magnetically regulated star formation models.