A Tale of Three: Magnetic Fields along the Orion Integral-shaped Filament as Revealed by the JCMT BISTRO Survey

Wu, Jintai, Qiu, Keping, Poidevin, Frédérick, Bastien, Pierre, Liu, Junhao, Ching, Tao-Chung, Bourke, Tyler L., Ward-Thompson, Derek, Pattle, Kate, Johnstone, Doug, Koch, Patrick M., Arzoumanian, Doris, Lee, Chang Won, Fanciullo, Lapo, Onaka, Takashi, Hwang, Jihye, Gouellec, Valentin J. M. Le, Soam, Archana, Tamura, Motohide, Tahani, Mehrnoosh, Eswaraiah, Chakali, Li, Hua-Bai, Berry, David, Furuya, Ray S., Coudé, Simon, Kwon, Woojin, Lin, Sheng-Jun, Wang, Jia-Wei, Hasegawa, Tetsuo, Lai, Shih-Ping, Byun, Do-Young, Chen, Zhiwei, Chen, Huei-Ru Vivien, Chen, Wen Ping, Chen, Mike, Cho, Jungyeon, Choi, Youngwoo, Choi, Yunhee, Choi, Minho, Chrysostomou, Antonio, Chung, Eun Jung, Dai, Sophia, Francesco, James Di, Diep, Pham Ngoc, Doi, Yasuo, Duan, Hao-Yuan, Duan, Yan, Eden, David, Fiege, Jason, Fissel, Laura M., Franzmann, Erica, Friberg, Per, Friesen, Rachel, Fuller, Gary, Gledhill, Tim, Graves, Sarah, Greaves, Jane, Griffin, Matt, Gu, Qilao, Han, Ilseung, Hayashi, Saeko, Hoang, Thiem, Houde, Martin, Inoue, Tsuyoshi, Inutsuka, Shu-ichiro, Iwasaki, Kazunari, Jeong, Il-Gyo, Könyves, Vera, Kang, Ji-hyun, Kang, Miju, Karoly, Janik, Kataoka, Akimasa, Kawabata, Koji, Kim, Shinyoung, Kim, Mi-Ryang, Kim, Kyoung Hee, Kim, Kee-Tae, Kim, Jongsoo, Kim, Hyosung, Kim, Gwanjeong, Kirchschlager, Florian, Kirk, Jason, Kobayashi, Masato I.N., Kusune, Takayoshi, Kwon, Jungmi, Lacaille, Kevin, Law, Chi-Yan, Lee, Hyeseung, Lee, Chin-Fei, Lee, Sang-Sung, Lee, Jeong-Eun, Li, Dalei, Li, Di, Li, Guangxing, Liu, Sheng-Yuan, Liu, Tie, Liu, Hong-Li, Lu, Xing, Lyo, A-Ran, Mairs, Steve, Matsumura, Masafumi, Matthews, Brenda, Moriarty-Schieven, Gerald, Nagata, Tetsuya, Nakamura, Fumitaka, Nakanishi, Hiroyuki, Ngoc, Nguyen Bich, Ohashi, Nagayoshi, Park, Geumsook, Parsons, Harriet, Peretto, Nicolas, Priestley, Felix, Pyo, Tae-Soo, Qian, Lei, Rao, Ramprasad, Rawlings, Jonathan, Rawlings, Mark, Retter, Brendan, Richer, John, Rigby, Andrew, Sadavoy, Sarah, Saito, Hiro, Savini, Giorgio, Seta, Masumichi, Sharma, Ekta, Shimajiri, Yoshito, Shinnaga, Hiroko, Tang, Ya-Wen, Tang, Xindi, Thuong, Hoang Duc, Tomisaka, Kohji, Tram, Le Ngoc, Tsukamoto, Yusuke, Viti, Serena, Wang, Hongchi, Whitworth, Anthony, Xie, Jinjin, Yang, Meng-Zhe, Yen, Hsi-Wei, Yoo, Hyunju, Yuan, Jinghua, Yun, Hyeong-Sik, Zenko, Tetsuya, Zhang, Guoyin, Zhang, Chuan-Peng, Zhang, Yapeng, Zhou, Jianjun, Zhu, Lei, Looze, Ilse de, André, Philippe, Dowell, C. Darren, Eyres, Stewart, Falle, Sam, Robitaille, Jean-François and van Loo, Sven (2024) A Tale of Three: Magnetic Fields along the Orion Integral-shaped Filament as Revealed by the JCMT BISTRO Survey. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 977 (2): L31. pp. 1-14. ISSN 2041-8205

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As part of the B-fields In Star-forming Region Observations survey, we present James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) 850 μm polarimetric observations toward the Orion integral-shaped filament (ISF) that covers three portions known as OMC-1, OMC-2, and OMC-3. The magnetic field threading the ISF seen in the JCMT POL-2 map appears as a tale of three: pinched for OMC-1, twisted for OMC-2, and nearly uniform for OMC-3. A multiscale analysis shows that the magnetic field structure in OMC-3 is very consistent at all the scales, whereas the field structure in OMC-2 shows no correlation across different scales. In OMC-1, the field retains its mean orientation from large to small scales but shows some deviations at small scales. Histograms of relative orientations between the magnetic field and filaments reveal a bimodal distribution for OMC-1, a relatively random distribution for OMC-2, and a distribution with a predominant peak at 90 o for OMC-3. Furthermore, the magnetic fields in OMC-1 and OMC-3 both appear to be aligned perpendicular to the fibers, which are denser structures within the filament, but the field in OMC-2 is aligned along with the fibers. All these suggest that gravity, turbulence, and magnetic field are each playing a leading role in OMC-1, 2, and 3, respectively. While OMC-2 and 3 have almost the same gas mass, density, and nonthermal velocity dispersion, there are on average younger and fewer young stellar objects in OMC-3, providing evidence that a stronger magnetic field will induce slower and less efficient star formation in molecular clouds.

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Keywords	polarimetry, star formation, interstellar clouds, interstellar magnetic fields, astronomy and astrophysics, space and planetary science
Date Deposited	15 May 2025 15:47
Last Modified	31 May 2025 00:46