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The Astrophysical Journal, 1(876), p. 42, 2019

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JCMT BISTRO Survey: Magnetic Fields within the Hub-filament Structure in IC 5146

Journal article published in 2019 by Sven van Loo, Lei Zhu, Jia-Wei Wang ORCID, Shih-Ping Lai ORCID, Chakali Eswaraiah ORCID, Kate Pattle ORCID, James Di Francesco, James Di I. Francesco ORCID, Doug Johnstone ORCID, Patrick M. Koch ORCID, L. I. U. Tie, Motohide Tamura ORCID, Tie Liu ORCID, Ray S. Furuya ORCID, Takashi Onaka ORCID and other authors.
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Abstract

We present the 850 $μ$m polarization observations toward the IC5146 filamentary cloud taken using the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) and its associated polarimeter (POL-2), mounted on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), as part of the B-fields In STar forming Regions Observations (BISTRO). This work is aimed at revealing the magnetic field morphology within a core-scale ($\lesssim 1.0$ pc) hub-filament structure (HFS) located at the end of a parsec-scale filament. To investigate whether or not the observed polarization traces the magnetic field in the HFS, we analyze the dependence between the observed polarization fraction and total intensity using a Bayesian approach with the polarization fraction described by the Rice likelihood function, which can correctly describe the probability density function (PDF) of the observed polarization fraction for low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) data. We find a power-law dependence between the polarization fraction and total intensity with an index of 0.56 in $A_V∼$ 20--300 mag regions, suggesting that the dust grains in these dense regions can still be aligned with magnetic fields in the IC5146 regions. Our polarization maps reveal a curved magnetic field, possibly dragged by the contraction along the parsec-scale filament. We further obtain a magnetic field strength of 0.5$±$0.2 mG toward the central hub using the Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi method, corresponding to a mass-to-flux criticality of $∼$ $1.3±0.4$ and an Alfvénic Mach number of $