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SIMPLIFI—Study of Interstellar Magnetic Polarization: A Legacy Investigation of Filaments. I. Magnetically Guided Accretion onto the DR21 Ridge

  • Authors: Thushara G. S. Pillai, Jens Kauffmann, Juan D. Soler, Mark Heyer, Philip C. Myers, Laura M. Fissel, Dan Clemens, Koji Sugitani, Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez, Fumitaka Nakamura, Andrea Giannetti, Daniel Seifried, Paul F. Goldsmith, Helmut Wiesemeyer, Evangelia Ntormousi, Gabriel Franco, Stefan Reissl, Karl M. Menten

Thushara G. S. Pillai et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1004 .

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Caption: Figure 1.

Left: Spitzer three-color image of the DR21 complex (IRAC1 is shown in blue, IRAC2 in green, and IRAC4 in red), rendered on the same pixel grid as the column density map in the right panel. Right: Plane-of-sky magnetic field orientation inferred from HAWC+ 214 μm polarization (rotated by 90°), overlaid on the Herschel-derived H2 column density map of R. Pokhrel et al. (2020) (colorscale). Contours mark H2 column densities of 1, 2, 3, and 6 × 1022 cm−2. Pseudo-vectors are spaced by ﹩18\mathop{.}\limits{^{\prime\prime} }2﹩ (4 pixels), approximately matching the ﹩20\mathop{.}\limits{^{\prime\prime} }3﹩ resolution of the smoothed HAWC+ data, which is also illustrated in the lower left corner.

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