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Azimuthal Dust Polarization from Aerodynamically Aligned Grains as Evidence for the Streaming Instability in Protoplanetary Disks

  • Authors: Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin, 哲宇 林, Jeonghoon Lim, 정훈 임, Jacob B. Simon, Zhi-Yun Li, Daniel Carrera, Manuel Fernández-López, Rachel Harrison, Rixin Li, 日新 李, Leslie W. Looney, Ian W. Stephens, Haifeng Yang

Zhe-Yu Daniel Lin et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1006 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

The polarization images for the two simulations. The left and right columns correspond to simulations with (τsZ) = (0.01, 0.03) and (0.03, 0.005), respectively. The top row shows the polarized intensity, with overplotted vectors denoting the polarization angles χ. The second row shows the map of χ, where χ = 0° is in the radial direction and χ = ±90° is in the azimuthal direction. The color map is cyclic, i.e., χ = 90° is equivalent to χ = −90°. The black contours for both rows mark where ϵ = 1. The bottom row shows the azimuthally averaged χ by averaging Stokes Q and U in the y-axis and then utilizing Equation (7). Values of χ ∈ (0°, 90°) are leading spirals, while values of χ ∈ (−90°, 0°) are trailing spirals.

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