BISTRO: B-fields In STar-forming Regions Observations, an Overview

P. Bastien, the BISTRO Consortium

The BISTRO polarimetric survey is currently being carried out with POL-2 and SCUBA-2 on the James-Clerk-Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). It covers the Gould Belt which comprises most of the nearby star-forming regions. More regions have been added to include more massive clouds. The thermal continuum emission at 850 μm from aligned dust grains is linearly polarized and allows the study of magnetic fields in dense molecular clouds which cannot be covered by optical and near-infrared polarimetry. This paper presents a brief overview of results from nine papers. Topics include the morphology of the magnetic field relative to its host filament or cloud, determination of the relative contributions of large-scale and turbulent field components and the strength of the fields in various regions.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 11, 117-124 (2020)

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