Orion Polarimetry
Date
The HAWC+ Instrument performed polarization measurements at 89 μm to capture the structure of the magnetic field in the Orion star forming region. Each line segment represents the orientation of the magnetic field at that location, overlaid on an image of the total intensity at the same wavelength. The total intensity image has a pixel scale of 1.5 arcsec per pixel and the polarization results were smoothed to a scale of 8 arcsec per pixel to produce statistically independent vectors in this HAWC+ observing band. For clarity, the line segments are set to a fixed length.
Credit
(NASA/SOFIA/Caltech/Darren Dowell)
Image Number
SCI2017_0009
Additional Information
Orion Polarimetry
Principal Investigator
Darren Dowell
Instrument
HAWC+
Location
United States
