The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2023)

First BISTRO Observations of the Dark Cloud Taurus L1495A-B10: The Role of the Magnetic Field in the Earliest Stages of Low-mass Star Formation

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acbea4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 946, no. 2
p. 62

Abstract

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We present BISTRO Survey 850 μ m dust emission polarization observations of the L1495A-B10 region of the Taurus molecular cloud, taken at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). We observe a roughly triangular network of dense filaments. We detect nine of the dense starless cores embedded within these filaments in polarization, finding that the plane-of-sky orientation of the core-scale magnetic field lies roughly perpendicular to the filaments in almost all cases. We also find that the large-scale magnetic field orientation measured by Planck is not correlated with any of the core or filament structures, except in the case of the lowest-density core. We propose a scenario for early prestellar evolution that is both an extension to, and consistent with, previous models, introducing an additional evolutionary transitional stage between field-dominated and matter-dominated evolution, observed here for the first time. In this scenario, the cloud collapses first to a sheet-like structure. Uniquely, we appear to be seeing this sheet almost face on. The sheet fragments into filaments, which in turn form cores. However, the material must reach a certain critical density before the evolution changes from being field dominated to being matter dominated. We measure the sheet surface density and the magnetic field strength at that transition for the first time and show consistency with an analytical prediction that had previously gone untested for over 50 yr.

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