The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2024)

Filamentary Network and Magnetic Field Structures Revealed with BISTRO in the High-mass Star-forming Region NGC 2264: Global Properties and Local Magnetogravitational Configurations

  • Jia-Wei Wang,
  • Patrick M. Koch,
  • Seamus D. Clarke,
  • Gary Fuller,
  • Nicolas Peretto,
  • Ya-Wen Tang,
  • Hsi-Wei Yen,
  • Shih-Ping Lai,
  • Nagayoshi Ohashi,
  • Doris Arzoumanian,
  • Doug Johnstone,
  • Ray Furuya,
  • Shu-ichiro Inutsuka,
  • Chang Won Lee,
  • Derek Ward-Thompson,
  • Valentin J. M. Le Gouellec,
  • Hong-Li Liu,
  • Lapo Fanciullo,
  • Jihye Hwang,
  • Kate Pattle,
  • Frédérick Poidevin,
  • Mehrnoosh Tahani,
  • Takashi Onaka,
  • Mark G. Rawlings,
  • Eun Jung Chung,
  • Junhao Liu,
  • A-Ran Lyo,
  • Felix Priestley,
  • Thiem Hoang,
  • Motohide Tamura,
  • David Berry,
  • Pierre Bastien,
  • Tao-Chung Ching,
  • Simon Coudé,
  • Woojin Kwon,
  • Mike Chen,
  • Chakali Eswaraiah,
  • Archana Soam,
  • Tetsuo Hasegawa,
  • Keping Qiu,
  • Tyler L. Bourke,
  • Do-Young Byun,
  • Zhiwei Chen,
  • Huei-Ru Vivien Chen,
  • Wen Ping Chen,
  • Jungyeon Cho,
  • Minho Choi,
  • Yunhee Choi,
  • Youngwoo Choi,
  • Antonio Chrysostomou,
  • Sophia Dai,
  • James Di Francesco,
  • Pham Ngoc Diep​,
  • Yasuo Doi,
  • Yan Duan,
  • Hao-Yuan Duan,
  • David Eden,
  • Jason Fiege,
  • Laura M. Fissel,
  • Erica Franzmann,
  • Per Friberg,
  • Rachel Friesen,
  • Tim Gledhill,
  • Sarah Graves,
  • Jane Greaves,
  • Matt Griffin,
  • Qilao Gu,
  • Ilseung Han,
  • Saeko Hayashi,
  • Martin Houde,
  • Tsuyoshi Inoue,
  • Kazunari Iwasaki,
  • Il-Gyo Jeong,
  • Vera Könyves,
  • Ji-hyun Kang,
  • Miju Kang,
  • Janik Karoly,
  • Akimasa Kataoka,
  • Koji Kawabata,
  • Zacariyya Khan,
  • Mi-Ryang Kim,
  • Kee-Tae Kim,
  • Kyoung Hee Kim,
  • Shinyoung Kim,
  • Jongsoo Kim,
  • Hyosung Kim,
  • Gwanjeong Kim,
  • Florian Kirchschlager,
  • Jason Kirk,
  • Masato I. N. Kobayashi,
  • Takayoshi Kusune,
  • Jungmi Kwon,
  • Kevin Lacaille,
  • Chi-Yan Law,
  • Sang-Sung Lee,
  • Hyeseung Lee,
  • Jeong-Eun Lee,
  • Chin-Fei Lee,
  • Dalei Li,
  • Hua-bai Li,
  • Guangxing Li,
  • Di Li,
  • Sheng-Jun Lin,
  • Tie Liu,
  • Sheng-Yuan Liu,
  • Xing Lu,
  • Steve Mairs,
  • Masafumi Matsumura,
  • Brenda Matthews,
  • Gerald Moriarty-Schieven,
  • Tetsuya Nagata,
  • Fumitaka Nakamura,
  • Hiroyuki Nakanishi,
  • Nguyen Bich Ngoc,
  • Geumsook Park,
  • Harriet Parsons,
  • Tae-Soo Pyo,
  • Lei Qian,
  • Ramprasad Rao,
  • Jonathan Rawlings,
  • Brendan Retter,
  • John Richer,
  • Andrew Rigby,
  • Sarah Sadavoy,
  • Hiro Saito,
  • Giorgio Savini,
  • Masumichi Seta,
  • Ekta Sharma,
  • Yoshito Shimajiri,
  • Hiroko Shinnaga,
  • Xindi Tang,
  • Hoang Duc Thuong,
  • Kohji Tomisaka,
  • Le Ngoc Tram,
  • Yusuke Tsukamoto,
  • Serena Viti,
  • Hongchi Wang,
  • Anthony Whitworth,
  • Jintai Wu,
  • Jinjin Xie,
  • Meng-Zhe Yang,
  • Hyunju Yoo,
  • Jinghua Yuan,
  • Hyeong-Sik Yun,
  • Tetsuya Zenko,
  • Chuan-Peng Zhang,
  • Yapeng Zhang,
  • Guoyin Zhang,
  • Jianjun Zhou,
  • Lei Zhu,
  • Ilse de Looze,
  • Philippe André,
  • C. Darren Dowell,
  • Stewart Eyres,
  • Sam Falle,
  • Jean-François Robitaille,
  • Sven van Loo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad165b
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 962, no. 2
p. 136

Abstract

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We report 850 μ m continuum polarization observations toward the filamentary high-mass star-forming region NGC 2264, taken as part of the B -fields In STar forming Regions Observations large program on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. These data reveal a well-structured nonuniform magnetic field in the NGC 2264C and 2264D regions with a prevailing orientation around 30° from north to east. Field strength estimates and a virial analysis of the major clumps indicate that NGC 2264C is globally dominated by gravity, while in 2264D, magnetic, gravitational, and kinetic energies are roughly balanced. We present an analysis scheme that utilizes the locally resolved magnetic field structures, together with the locally measured gravitational vector field and the extracted filamentary network. From this, we infer statistical trends showing that this network consists of two main groups of filaments oriented approximately perpendicular to one another. Additionally, gravity shows one dominating converging direction that is roughly perpendicular to one of the filament orientations, which is suggestive of mass accretion along this direction. Beyond these statistical trends, we identify two types of filaments. The type I filament is perpendicular to the magnetic field with local gravity transitioning from parallel to perpendicular to the magnetic field from the outside to the filament ridge. The type II filament is parallel to the magnetic field and local gravity. We interpret these two types of filaments as originating from the competition between radial collapsing, driven by filament self-gravity, and longitudinal collapsing, driven by the region's global gravity.

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