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
arxiv created 2004/10/12 · openalex publication_date 2004/10/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
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.