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| author | Looney, Leslie W. Lin, Zhe-Yu Daniel Li, Zhi-Yun Tobin, John J. Radecki, Martin Butte, Syzygy Stephens, Ian W. Fernandez-Lopez, Manuel Yang, Haifeng Reynolds, Nickalas K. Sheehan, Patrick Kwon, Woojin Harrison, Rachel North, Allen |
| author_facet | Looney, Leslie W. Lin, Zhe-Yu Daniel Li, Zhi-Yun Tobin, John J. Radecki, Martin Butte, Syzygy Stephens, Ian W. Fernandez-Lopez, Manuel Yang, Haifeng Reynolds, Nickalas K. Sheehan, Patrick Kwon, Woojin Harrison, Rachel North, Allen |
| contents | Circumstellar disk dust polarization in the (sub)millimeter is, for the most part, not from dust grain alignment with magnetic fields but rather indicative of a combination of dust self-scattering with a yet unknown alignment mechanism that is consistent with mechanical alignment. While the observational evidence for scattering has been well established, that for mechanical alignment is less so. Circum-multiple dust structures in protostellar systems provide a unique environment to probe different polarization alignment mechanisms. We present ALMA Band 4 and Band 7 polarization observations toward the multiple young system L1448 IRS3B. The polarization in the two Bands is consistent with each other, presenting multiple polarization morphologies. On the size scale of the inner envelope surrounding the circum-multiple disk, the polarization is consistent with magnetic field dust grain alignment. On the very small scale of compact circumstellar regions, we see polarization that is consistent with scattering around source a and c, which are likely the most optically thick components. Finally, we see polarization that is consistent with mechanical alignment of dust grains along the spiral dust structures, which would suggest that the dust is tracing the relative gas flow along the spiral arms. If the gas-flow dust grain alignment mechanism is dominant in these cases, disk dust polarization may provide a direct probe of the small-scale kinematics of the gas flow relative to the dust grains. |
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| spellingShingle | L1448 IRS3B: Dust Polarization Aligned with Spiral Features, Tracing Gas Flows Looney, Leslie W. Lin, Zhe-Yu Daniel Li, Zhi-Yun Tobin, John J. Radecki, Martin Butte, Syzygy Stephens, Ian W. Fernandez-Lopez, Manuel Yang, Haifeng Reynolds, Nickalas K. Sheehan, Patrick Kwon, Woojin Harrison, Rachel North, Allen Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Circumstellar disk dust polarization in the (sub)millimeter is, for the most part, not from dust grain alignment with magnetic fields but rather indicative of a combination of dust self-scattering with a yet unknown alignment mechanism that is consistent with mechanical alignment. While the observational evidence for scattering has been well established, that for mechanical alignment is less so. Circum-multiple dust structures in protostellar systems provide a unique environment to probe different polarization alignment mechanisms. We present ALMA Band 4 and Band 7 polarization observations toward the multiple young system L1448 IRS3B. The polarization in the two Bands is consistent with each other, presenting multiple polarization morphologies. On the size scale of the inner envelope surrounding the circum-multiple disk, the polarization is consistent with magnetic field dust grain alignment. On the very small scale of compact circumstellar regions, we see polarization that is consistent with scattering around source a and c, which are likely the most optically thick components. Finally, we see polarization that is consistent with mechanical alignment of dust grains along the spiral dust structures, which would suggest that the dust is tracing the relative gas flow along the spiral arms. If the gas-flow dust grain alignment mechanism is dominant in these cases, disk dust polarization may provide a direct probe of the small-scale kinematics of the gas flow relative to the dust grains. |
| title | L1448 IRS3B: Dust Polarization Aligned with Spiral Features, Tracing Gas Flows |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07787 |