Bibcode
Poidevin, F.; Bastien, Pierre; Matthews, Brenda C.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 716, Issue 2, pp. 893-906 (2010).
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2010
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Description
The SCUBA polarized 850 μm thermal emission data of the OMC-2 region
in Orion A are added to and homogeneously reduced with data already
available in the OMC-3 region. The data set shows that OMC-2 is a region
generally less polarized than OMC-3. Where coincident, most of the 850
μm polarization pattern is similar to that measured in 350 μm
polarization data. Only 850 μm polarimetry data have been obtained in
and around MMS7, FIR1 and FIR2, and in the region south of FIR6. A
realignment of the polarization vectors with the filament can be seen
near FIR1 in the region south of OMC-3. An analysis shows that the
energy injected by CO outflows and H2 jets associated with
OMC-2 and OMC-3 does not appear to alter the polarization patterns at a
scale of the 14'' resolution beam. A second-order structure function
analysis of the polarization position angles shows that OMC-2 is a more
turbulent region than OMC-3. OMC-3 appears to be a clear case of a
magnetically dominated region with respect to the turbulence. However,
for OMC-2 it is not clear that this is the case. A more in-depth
analysis of five regions displayed along OMC-2/3 indicates a decrease of
the mean polarization degree and an increase of the turbulent angular
dispersion from north to south. A statistical analysis suggests the
presence of two depolarization regimes in our maps: one regime including
the effects of the cores, the other one excluding it.