Unveiling the role of magnetic fields in an accreting filament onto a young protocluster

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Autores principales: Tabatabaei, Farideh S., Redaelli, Elena, Galli, Daniele, Caselli, Paola, Franco, Gabriel A. P., Duarte-Cabral, Ana, Padovani, Marco
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author Tabatabaei, Farideh S.
Redaelli, Elena
Galli, Daniele
Caselli, Paola
Franco, Gabriel A. P.
Duarte-Cabral, Ana
Padovani, Marco
author_facet Tabatabaei, Farideh S.
Redaelli, Elena
Galli, Daniele
Caselli, Paola
Franco, Gabriel A. P.
Duarte-Cabral, Ana
Padovani, Marco
contents In order to develop a more comprehensive picture of star formation, it is essential to understand the physical relationship between dense cores and the filaments embedding them. There is evidence that magnetic fields play a crucial role in this context. We aim to understand how magnetic fields influence the properties and kinematics of an isolated filament located east of the Barnard 59 clump, belonging to the Pipe Nebula. We use near infrared polarization observations to determine the magnetic field configuration, and we apply the Davis Chandrasekhar Fermi method to infer the magnetic field strength in the plane of the sky. Furthermore, we use complementary data from the James Clerk Maxwell Submillimetre Telescope (JCMT) of C18O and 13CO J=3-2 transition to determine the filament's kinematics. Finally, we model the radial density profile of the filament with polytropic cylindrical models. Our results indicate that the filament is stable to radial collapse and is radially supported by agents other than thermal pressure. In addition, based on previous observations of emission lines on this source, we suggest that gas is flowing toward the hub, while C18O (3-2) non-thermal motions indicate that the cloud is in a quiescent state.
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spellingShingle Unveiling the role of magnetic fields in an accreting filament onto a young protocluster
Tabatabaei, Farideh S.
Redaelli, Elena
Galli, Daniele
Caselli, Paola
Franco, Gabriel A. P.
Duarte-Cabral, Ana
Padovani, Marco
Astrophysics of Galaxies
In order to develop a more comprehensive picture of star formation, it is essential to understand the physical relationship between dense cores and the filaments embedding them. There is evidence that magnetic fields play a crucial role in this context. We aim to understand how magnetic fields influence the properties and kinematics of an isolated filament located east of the Barnard 59 clump, belonging to the Pipe Nebula. We use near infrared polarization observations to determine the magnetic field configuration, and we apply the Davis Chandrasekhar Fermi method to infer the magnetic field strength in the plane of the sky. Furthermore, we use complementary data from the James Clerk Maxwell Submillimetre Telescope (JCMT) of C18O and 13CO J=3-2 transition to determine the filament's kinematics. Finally, we model the radial density profile of the filament with polytropic cylindrical models. Our results indicate that the filament is stable to radial collapse and is radially supported by agents other than thermal pressure. In addition, based on previous observations of emission lines on this source, we suggest that gas is flowing toward the hub, while C18O (3-2) non-thermal motions indicate that the cloud is in a quiescent state.
title Unveiling the role of magnetic fields in an accreting filament onto a young protocluster
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18622