ISSN:
1572-946X
Keywords:
circumstellar matter
;
magnetic fields
;
polarization
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract We have obtained diffraction-limited images of the mid-infrared emission and polarization patterns in a number of southern-sky objects. By mapping the polarization produced in absorption or emission by aligned aspherical dust grains, we have been able to trace the detailed spatial structure of magnetic fields in the warm circumstellar material of young molecular-outflow sources and HII regions, in the expanding dust shell of the mass-losing star Eta Carinae, and in the inner parsec of the Galactic Centre.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00667935