Comparing Submillimeter Polarized Emission with Near-infrared Polarization of Background Stars for the Vela C Molecular Cloud

• Published in: The Astrophysical Journal
• Main Authors: Santos, Fábio P., Moncelsi, Lorenzo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Astronomical Society 2017
• Subjects: dust; extinction; ISM: magnetic fields; ISM: individual objects (Vela C molecular cloud); techniques: polarimetric; Starlight; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa62a7

We present a large-scale combination of near-infrared (near-IR) interstellar polarization data from background starlight with polarized emission data at submillimeter wavelengths for the Vela C molecular cloud. The near-IR data consist of more than 6700 detections probing a range of visual extinctio...