期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 842, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aa71b7
关键词
ISM: magnetic fields; magnetic fields; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); polarization; stars: formation; turbulence
资金
- NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
- MICINN (Spain) [AYA2014-57369-C3-P]
- MECD (Spain) [PRX15/00435]
- state of California
- state of Illinois
- state of Maryland
- James S. McDonnell Foundation
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation
- University of Chicago
- Associates of the California Institute of Technology
- National Science Foundation
- AST [1313083]
- NASA [NNX14AB38G]
- FAS Division of Science, Research Computing Group at Harvard University
We report Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of polarized dust emission from the protostellar source Ser-emb 8 at a linear resolution of 140 au. Assuming models of dust-grain alignment hold, the observed polarization pattern gives a projected view of the magnetic field structure in this source. Contrary to expectations based on models of strongly magnetized star formation, the magnetic field in Ser-emb 8 does not exhibit an hourglass morphology. Combining the new ALMA data with previous observational studies, we can connect magnetic field structure from protostellar core (similar to 80,000 au) to disk (similar to 100 au) scales. We compare our observations with four magnetohydrodynamic gravo-turbulence simulations made with the AREPO code that have initial conditions ranging from super-Alfvenic (weakly magnetized) to sub-Alfvenic (strongly magnetized). These simulations achieve the spatial dynamic range necessary to resolve the collapse of protostars from the parsec scale of star-forming clouds down to the similar to 100 au scale probed by ALMA. Only in the very strongly magnetized simulation do we see both the preservation of the field direction from cloud to disk scales and an hourglass-shaped field at < 1000 au scales. We conduct an analysis of the relative orientation of the magnetic field and the density structure in both the Ser-emb 8 ALMA observations and the synthetic observations of the four AREPO simulations. We conclude that the Ser-emb 8 data are most similar to the weakly magnetized simulations, which exhibit random alignment, in contrast to the strongly magnetized simulation, where the magnetic field plays a role in shaping the density structure in the source. In the weak-field case, it is turbulence-not the magnetic field-that shapes the material that forms the protostar, highlighting the dominant role that turbulence can play across many orders of magnitude in spatial scale.
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