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Far-infrared Polarization Properties of Nearby Star-forming Regions: A New Compendium of SOFIA/HAWC+ Observations

  • Authors: Kaitlyn Karpovich, Susan E. Clark, Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez

Kaitlyn Karpovich et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1012 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 10.

Histograms of the magnetic field pseudovector orientations (ϕB) in Galactic coordinates. The half-polar polarization data are wrapped onto a full polar plot so that the orientations +90∘ and −90∘ are in the same location. An orientation of 0∘ is oriented toward Galactic north. Top: all of the data smoothed to 25″. Middle: density histograms of the data in the near regime smoothed to 25″ (purple) and smoothed to 0.052 pc (cyan). Bottom: density histograms of the data in the near regime smoothed to 25″ (purple) and smoothed to 0.32 pc (cyan)

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