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When Magnetic Fields Sculpt the Sky: The Riegel–Crutcher Cloud in Optical Polarization

  • Authors: Gabriel A. P. Franco, Mayara Gomides, Zhi-Yun Li, Fábio P. Santos, Farideh S. Tabatabaei

Gabriel A. P. Franco et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1004 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 9.

Zoomed-in views of three representative subregions (corresponding to Fields A, B, and C in Figure 8) showing H I self-absorption filaments extracted with the RHT analysis (in grayscale) overlaid with plane-of-sky magnetic-field orientations derived from stellar polarization (red segments) and positioned along the filaments using spatial sampling without a fixed grid. The filamentary structures closely follow the polarization segments that trace the projected magnetic-field orientation.

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