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

• Main Authors: Santos, FP, Ade, PAR, Angile, FE, Ashton, P, Benton, SJ, Devlin, MJ, Dober, B, Fissel, LM, Fukui, Y, Galitzki, N, Gandilo, NN, Klein, J, Korotkov, AL, Li, Z-Y, Martin, PG, Matthews, TG, Moncelsi, L, Nakamura, F, Netterfield, CB, Novak, G, Pascale, E, Poidevin, F, Savini, G, Scott, D, Shariff, JA, Soler, JD, Thomas, NE, Tucker, CE, Tucker, GS, Ward-Thompson, D
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: IOP PUBLISHING LTD 2017
• Subjects: Science & Technology; Physical Sciences; Astronomy & Astrophysics; dust; extinction; ISM: magnetic fields; ISM: individual objects (Vela C molecular cloud); techniques: polarimetric; INTERSTELLAR DUST PARTICLES; INTERMEDIATE-MASS CORES; GRAIN ALIGNMENT; MAGNETIC-FIELDS; RADIATIVE TORQUES; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; LOCAL BUBBLE; DATA RELEASE; POLARIMETRY; Starlight; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1555499/1/Savini_Santos_2017_ApJ_837_161.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1555499/

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...