Browsing by Author "Nagata, T."

Infrared polarimetry of dark clouds. II : Magnetic field structure in the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud

Sato, S.; Tamura, M.; Nagata, T.; Kaifu, N.; Hough, J.; McLean, I. (1988)

K-band polarimetry of 20 sources embedded within the densest region of the Rho Oph dark cloud has been obtained. The degree of polarization ranges from 1.1 to 7.4 percent, and the position angles have a bimodal distribution, ...

Infrared polarimetry of the reflection nebula near L 1551 IRS 5

Nagata, T.; Yamashita, T.; Sato, S.; Suzuki, H.; Hough, J.; Garden, R.; Gatley, I. (1986)

The K-band polarization has been measured in the region extending 30 arcsec to the SW of L 1551 IRS 5. The degree of polarization is exceptionally high, reaching ≡67 per cent. The large polarizations and the azimuthal ...

Infrared polarization in OMC-1 - Discovery of a molecular hydrogen reflection nebula

Hough, J.; Axon, D.J.; Burton, M.; Gatley, I.; Sato, S.; Bailey, J.; McCaughrean, M.J.; McLean, I.; Nagata, T.; Allen, D.; Garden, R.; Hasegawa, T.; Hayashi, M.; Kaifu, N.; Morimoto, M.; Walther, D. (1986)

The polarization of the broadband continuum at K has been mapped in the core of the OMC-1 with high spatial resolution, and with lower resolution in a more extensive surrounding area. In addition, the first detailed ...

Magnetic field configuration at the galactic center investigated by wide field near-infrared polarimetry

Nishiyama, S.; Tamura, M.; Hatano, H.; Kanai, S.; Kurita, M.; Sato, S.; Matsunaga, N.; Nagata, T.; Nagayama, T.; Kandori, R.; Nakajima, Y.; Kusakabe, N.; Sato, Y.; Hough, J.; Sugitani, K.; Okuda, H. (2009)

Magnetic field configuration at the galactic center investigated by wide-field near-infrared polarimetry : transition from a toroidal to a poloidal magnetic field

Nishiyama, S.; Hatano, H.; Tamura, M.; Matsunaga, N.; Yoshikawa, T.; Suenaga, T.; Hough, J.; Sugitani, K.; Nagayama, T.; Kato, D.; Nagata, T. (2010)

We present a large-scale view of the magnetic field (MF) in the central 2° × 2° region of our Galaxy. The polarization of point sources has been measured in the J, H, and KS bands using the near-infrared polarimetric camera ...

Magnetic field structure in dark clouds

Tamura, M.; Nagata, T.; Sato, S.; Tanaka, M.; Kaifu, N.; Hough, J.; McLean, I.; Gatley, I.; Garden, R.; McCaughrean, M.J. (Reidel Publishing Company (Kluwer Imprint), 1987)

Near infrared polarization images of the Orion Nebula

Tamura, M.; Kandori, R.; Kusakabe, N.; Nakajima, Y.; Hashimoto, J.; Nagashima, C.; Nagata, T.; Nagayama, T.; Kimura, H.; Yamamoto, T.; Hough, J.; Lucas, P.W.; Chrysostomou, A.; Bailey, J. (2006)

Near-infrared circular polarimetry and correlation diagrams in the Orion Becklin-Neugebauer/Kleinman-low region: contribution of dichroic extinction

Fukue, T.; Tamura, M.; Kandori, R.; Kusakabe, N.; Hough, J.; Lucas, P.W.; Bailey, J.; Whittet, D.C.B.; Nakajima, Y.; Hashimoto, J.; Nagata, T. (2009)

We present a deep circular polarization (CP) image of the Orion Becklin-Neugebauer (BN)/Kleinman-Low (KL)nebula in the K-s band and correlations of CP, linear polarization (LP) and H-K-s color representing extinction. The ...

Near-Infrared Imaging Polarimetry of M42 : Aperture Polarimetry of Point-like Sources

Kusakabe, N.; Tamura, M.; Kandori, R.; Hashimoto, J.; Nakajima, Y.; Nagata, T.; Nagayama, T.; Hough, J.; Lucas, P.W. (2008)

Spectropolarimetry of the 3-micron ice band in Elias 16 (Taurus Dark Cloud)

Hough, J.; Sato, S.; Tamura, M.; Yamashita, T.; McFadzean, A.D.; Rouse, M.F.; Whittet, D.C.B.; Kaifu, N.; Suzuki, H.; Nagata, T.; Gatley, I.; Bailey, J. (1988)

Polarization data between 1.2 and 3.8 μm, including spectropolarimetry in the 3-μm ice feature, are presented for the highly reddened field star Elias 16 in the Taurus Dark Cloud. The polarization is observed to increase ...

Spectropolarimetry of the 3-micron ice feature in molecular clouds. II : GL 2591, GL 2136, W 33A and Elias 29 (Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud)

Hough, J.; Whittet, D.C.B.; Sato, S.; Yamashita, T.; Tamura, M.; Nagata, T.; Aitken, D.; Roche, P.F. (1989)

Spectropolarimetric observations in the 3-micron ice band are presented for the infrared sources GL 2591, GL 2136, W 33A and Elias 29 (Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud). Some continuum polarization measurements between 1.2 and 5.0 ...

Wide-Field Infrared Imaging Polarimetry of the NGC 6334 Region: A Nest of Infrared Reflection Nebulae

Hashimoto, J.; Tamura, M.; Kandori, R.; Kusakabe, N.; Nakajima, Y.; Kurita, M.; Nagata, T.; Nagayama, T.; Hough, J.; Chrysostomou, A. (2008)

Wide-field Infrared Polarimetry of the ρ Ophiuchi Cloud Core

Kwon, J.; Tamura, M.; Hough, J.~H.; Nakajima, Y.; Nishiyama, S.; Kusakabe, N.; Nagata, T.; Kandori, R. (2015-09-21)

We conducted wide and deep simultaneous JHKs-band imaging polarimetry of the ρ Ophiuchi cloud complex. Aperture polarimetry in the JHKs band was conducted for 2136 sources in all three bands, of which 322 sources have ...