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Paper: Magnetic Fields in Forming Stars with the ngVLA
Monograph: 7, Science with a Next Generation Very Large Array
Page: 357
Authors: Hull, C. L. H.; Carrasco-González, C.; Williams, P. K. G.; Girart, J. M.; Robishaw, T.; Galván-Madrid, R.; Bourke, T.
Abstract: The magnetic field plays an important role in every stage of the star-formation process from the collapse of the initial protostellar core to the star's arrival on the main sequence. Consequently, the goal of this article is to explore a wide range of magnetic phenomena that can be investigated using the polarization capabilities of the next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA). These include: (1) magnetic fields in protostellar cores via polarized emission from aligned dust grains, including in regions optically thick at wavelengths observable by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA); (2) magnetic fields in both protostellar cores and molecular outflows via spectral-line polarization from the Zeeman and Goldreich-Kylafis effects; (3) magnetic fields in protostellar jets via polarized synchrotron emission; and (4) gyrosynchrotron emission from magnetospheres around low-mass stars.
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