Bibcode
Matthews, Tristan G.; Ade, Peter A. R.; Angilè, Francesco E.; Benton, Steven J.; Chapin, Edward L.; Chapman, Nicholas L.; Devlin, Mark J.; Fissel, Laura M.; Fukui, Yasuo; Gandilo, Natalie N.; Gundersen, Joshua O.; Hargrave, Peter C.; Klein, Jeffrey; Korotkov, Andrei L.; Moncelsi, Lorenzo; Mroczkowski, Tony K.; Netterfield, Calvin B.; Novak, Giles; Nutter, David; Olmi, Luca; Pascale, Enzo; Poidevin, F.; Savini, Giorgio; Scott, Douglas; Shariff, Jamil A.; Soler, Juan Diego; Tachihara, Kengo; Thomas, Nicholas E.; Truch, Matthew D. P.; Tucker, Carole E.; Tucker, Gregory S.; Ward-Thompson, Derek
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 784, Issue 2, article id. 116, 10 pp. (2014).
Fecha de publicación:
4
2014
Revista
Número de citas
35
Número de citas referidas
33
Descripción
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope for Polarimetry
(BLASTPol) was created by adding polarimetric capability to the BLAST
experiment that was flown in 2003, 2005, and 2006. BLASTPol inherited
BLAST's 1.8 m primary and its Herschel/SPIRE heritage focal plane that
allows simultaneous observation at 250, 350, and 500 μm. We flew
BLASTPol in 2010 and again in 2012. Both were long duration Antarctic
flights. Here we present polarimetry of the nearby filamentary dark
cloud Lupus I obtained during the 2010 flight. Despite limitations
imposed by the effects of a damaged optical component, we were able to
clearly detect submillimeter polarization on degree scales. We compare
the resulting BLASTPol magnetic field map with a similar map made via
optical polarimetry. (The optical data were published in 1998 by J.
Rizzo and collaborators.) The two maps partially overlap and are
reasonably consistent with one another. We compare these magnetic field
maps to the orientations of filaments in Lupus I, and we find that the
dominant filament in the cloud is approximately perpendicular to the
large-scale field, while secondary filaments appear to run parallel to
the magnetic fields in their vicinities. This is similar to what is
observed in Serpens South via near-IR polarimetry, and consistent with
what is seen in MHD simulations by F. Nakamura and Z. Li.