Ian W. Stephens, Leslie W. Looney, Woojin Kwon, Charles L. H. Hull, Richard L. Plambeck, Richard M. Crutcher, Nicholas Chapman, Giles Novak, Jacqueline Davidson, John E. Vaillancourt, Hiroko Shinnaga, Tristan Matthews
We present the first detection of polarization around the Class 0 low-mass protostar L1157-mm at two different wavelengths. We show polarimetric maps at large scales (10" resolution at 350 um) from the SHARC-II Polarimeter and at smaller scales (1.2"-4.5" at 1.3 mm) from the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA). The observations are consistent with each other and show inferred magnetic field lines aligned with the outflow. The CARMA observations suggest a full hourglass magnetic field morphology centered about the core; this is only the second well-defined hourglass detected around a low-mass protostar to date. We apply two different methods to CARMA polarimetric observations to estimate the plane-of-sky magnetic field magnitude, finding values of 1.4 and 3.4 mG.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6739
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