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Evaluating the Magnetic Field Strength in Molecular Clouds

2004/10/12 by Martin Houde · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Optical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materials #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/426684

published as Astrophys.J. 616 (2004) L111-L114 · 10 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in the ApJ Letters

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Abstract

We discuss an extension to the Chandrasekhar-Fermi method for the evaluation of the mean magnetic field strength in molecular clouds to cases where the spatial orientation of the field is known. We apply the results to M17, using previously published data.

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