The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2023)

JCMT BISTRO Observations: Magnetic Field Morphology of Bubbles Associated with NGC 6334

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acac81
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 944, no. 2
p. 139

Abstract

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We study the H ii regions associated with the NGC 6334 molecular cloud observed in the submillimeter and taken as part of the B -fields In STar-forming Region Observations Survey. In particular, we investigate the polarization patterns and magnetic field morphologies associated with these H ii regions. Through polarization pattern and pressure calculation analyses, several of these bubbles indicate that the gas and magnetic field lines have been pushed away from the bubble, toward an almost tangential (to the bubble) magnetic field morphology. In the densest part of NGC 6334, where the magnetic field morphology is similar to an hourglass, the polarization observations do not exhibit observable impact from H ii regions. We detect two nested radial polarization patterns in a bubble to the south of NGC 6334 that correspond to the previously observed bipolar structure in this bubble. Finally, using the results of this study, we present steps (incorporating computer vision; circular Hough transform) that can be used in future studies to identify bubbles that have physically impacted magnetic field lines.

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