The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Revealing the Diverse Magnetic Field Morphologies in Taurus Dense Cores with Sensitive Submillimeter Polarimetry

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We have obtained sensitive dust continuum polarization observations at 850 μm in the B213 region of Taurus using POL-2 on SCUBA-2 at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope as part of the B-fields in STar-forming Region Observations (BISTRO) survey. These observations allow us to probe magnetic field (B-field) at high spatial resolution (~2000 au or ~0.01 pc at 140 pc) in two protostellar cores (K04166 and K04169) and one prestellar core (Miz-8b) that lie within the B213 filament. Using the Davis–Chandrasekhar–Fermi method, we estimate the B-field strengths in K04166, K04169, and Miz-8b to be 38 ± 14, 44 ± 16, and 12 ± 5 μG, respectively. These cores show distinct mean B-field orientations. The B-field in K04166 is well ordered and aligned parallel to the orientations of the core minor axis, outflows, core rotation axis, and large-scale uniform B-field, in accordance with magnetically regulated star formation via ambipolar diffusion taking place in K04166. The B-field in K04169 is found to be ordered but oriented nearly perpendicular to the core minor axis and large-scale B-field and not well correlated with other axes. In contrast, Miz-8b exhibits a disordered B-field that shows no preferred alignment with the core minor axis or large-scale field. We found that only one core, K04166, retains a memory of the large-scale uniform B-field. The other two cores, K04169 and Miz-8b, are decoupled from the large-scale field. Such a complex B-field configuration could be caused by gas inflow onto the filament, even in the presence of a substantial magnetic flux.

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Authors/Creators:	This paper has 145 authors. You can scroll the list below to see them all or them all. Eswaraiah, C Li, D Furuya, RS Hasegawa, T Ward-Thompson, D Qiu, K Ohashi, N Pattle, K Sadavoy, S Hull, CLH Berry, D Doi, Y Ching, T-C Lai, S-P Wang, J-W Koch, PM Kwon, J Kwon, W Bastien, P Arzoumanian, D Coudé, S Soam, A Fanciullo, L Yen, H-W Liu, J Hoang, T Ping Chen, W Shimajiri, Y Liu, T Chen, Z Li, H-B Lyo, A-R Hwang, J Johnstone, D Rao, R Bich Ngoc, N Ngoc Diep, P Mairs, S Parsons, H Tamura, M Tahani, M Vivien Chen, H-R Nakamura, F Shinnaga, H Tang, Y-W Cho, J Won Lee, C Inutsuka, S-I Inoue, T Iwasaki, K Qian, L Xie, J Li, D Liu, H-L Zhang, C-P Chen, M Zhang, G Zhu, L Zhou, J André, P Liu, S-Y Yuan, J Lu, X Peretto, N Bourke, TL Byun, D-Y Dai, S Duan, Y Duan, H-Y Eden, D Matthews, B Fiege, J Fissel, LM Kim, K-T Lee, C-F Kim, J Pyo, T-S Choi, Y Choi, M Chrysostomou, A Jung Chung, E Ngoc Tram, L Franzmann, E Friberg, P Friesen, R Fuller, G Gledhill, T Graves, S Greaves, J Griffin, M Gu, Q Han, I Hatchell, J Hayashi, S Houde, M Kawabata, K Jeong, I-G Kang, J-H Kang, S-J Kang, M Kataoka, A Kemper, F Rawlings, M Rawlings, J Retter, B Richer, J Rigby, A Saito, H Savini, G Scaife, A Seta, M Kim, G Hee Kim, K Kim, M-R Kirchschlager, F Kirk, J Kobayashi, MIN Konyves, V Kusune, T Lacaille, K Law, C-Y Lee, S-S Lee, Y-H Matsumura, M Moriarty-Schieven, G Nagata, T Nakanishi, H Onaka, T Park, G Tang, X Tomisaka, K Tsukamoto, Y Viti, S Wang, H Whitworth, A Yoo, H Yun, H-S Zenko, T Zhang, Y de Looze, I Dowell, CD Eyres, S Falle, S Robitaille, J-F van Loo, S https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4746-8500
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Dates:	Published: 10 May 2021 Published (online): 10 May 2021 Accepted: 18 February 2021
Institution:	The University of Leeds
Academic Units:	The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Mathematics (Leeds) > Applied Mathematics (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Physics and Astronomy (Leeds) > Astrophysics (Leeds)
Funding Information:	Funder Grant number STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council) Not Known
Depositing User:	Symplectic Publications
Date Deposited:	30 Jul 2021 11:42
Last Modified:	30 Jul 2021 11:42
Status:	Published
Publisher:	IOP Publishing
Identification Number:	10.3847/2041-8213/abeb1c
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