7–11 Jul 2025
Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC)
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Magnetic fields in star-forming regions: recent results from the JCMT BISTRO Survey

8 Jul 2025, 09:50
15m
Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC)

Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC)

Durham University South Road Durham DH1 3LS
Talk Star formation across environments: From individual molecular clouds to entire galaxies Star formation across environments: From individual molecular clouds to entire galaxies

Description

The BISTRO (B-fields in Star-Forming Region Observations) Survey, a JCMT Large Program mapping Galactic star-forming regions with the POL-2 polarimeter, has constructed the largest extant sample of magnetic fields in star-forming region observed at sub-arc minute resolution. I will present a range of recent results from the survey, showing the similarities and differences between magnetic fields in a wide range of star-forming environments, from isolated prestellar cores, through low-mass filaments, massive infrared-dark clouds, to the Galactic Centre. I will discuss the evolution of magnetised molecular clouds to gravitational instability, and the emerging evidence for interactions between magnetic fields and stellar feedback across size scales.

Primary author

Kate Pattle (University College London)

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