## Tahani et al. (2018) – Helical magnetic fields in molecular clouds?. A new method to determine the line-of-sight magnetic field structure in molecular clouds

Context. Magnetic fields pervade in the interstellar medium (ISM) and are believed to be important in the process of star formation, yet probing magnetic fields in star formation regions is

## Soler (2019) – Using Herschel and Planck observations to delineate the role of magnetic fields in molecular cloud structure

We present a study of the relative orientation between the magnetic field projected onto the plane of sky (B⊥) on scales down to 0.4 pc, inferred from the polarized thermal

## Thompson, Troland & Heiles (2019) – A Survey of Magnetic Field Strengths in the Envelopes of Molecular Clouds via the 18 cm OH Zeeman Effect

We present the results of an extensive Arecibo observational survey of magnetic field strengths in the inter-core regions of molecular clouds to determine their role in the evolution and collapse

## Peek & Burkhart (2019) – Do Androids Dream of Magnetic Fields? Using Neural Networks to Interpret the Turbulent Interstellar Medium

The interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies is composed of a turbulent magnetized plasma. In order to quantitatively measure relevant turbulent parameters of the ISM, a wide variety of statistical techniques

## Panopoulou et al. (2019) – Extreme starlight polarization in a region with highly polarized dust emission

Context. Galactic dust emission is polarized at unexpectedly high levels, as revealed by Planck. Aims: The origin of the observed ~=20% polarization fractions can be identified by characterizing the properties

## González-Casanova, Lazarian & Burkhart (2019) – Velocity centroid gradients for absorbing media

We explore how the velocity gradient technique (VGT) can be applied to absorbing media in the case of 13CO 2-1 emission. The VGT is a new way to trace magnetic

## Li & Klein (2019) – Magnetized interstellar molecular clouds: II. The Large-Scale Structure and Dynamics of Filamentary Molecular Clouds

Ideal MHD high resolution AMR simulations with driven turbulence and self-gravity have been performed that demonstrate the formation of long filamentary molecular clouds at the converging location of large-scale turbulence

## Mocz & Burkhart (2018) – Star formation from dense shocked regions in supersonic isothermal magnetoturbulence

Supersonic isothermal turbulence establishes a network of transient dense shocks that sweep up material and have a density profile described by balance between ram pressure of the background fluid versus

## Thomson et al. (2018) – Ghost of a shell: magnetic fields of Galactic supershell GSH 006 – 15 + 7

We identify a counterpart to a Galactic supershell in diffuse radio polarization, and use this to determine the magnetic fields associated with this object. GSH 006 – 15 + 7

## Iwasaki et al. (2018) – The Early Stage of Molecular Cloud Formation by Compression of Two-phase Atomic Gases

We investigate the formation of molecular clouds from atomic gas by using three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations including chemical reactions and heating/cooling processes. We consider super-Alfv\’enic head-on colliding flows of atomic gas

## Jokipii, Lerche & Schommer (1969) – Interstellar Polarization of Starlight and the Turbulent Structure of the Galaxy

Fluctuations in the polarization of starlight provide strong support for the concept of a turbulent interstellar medium. We have analyzed theoretically the mean polarization and the variance of polarization about

## Aannestad & Purcell (1973) – Interstellar Grains

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## Körtgen et al. (2018) – The Origin of Filamentary Star Forming Clouds in Magnetised Galaxies

Observations show that galaxies and their interstellar media are pervaded by strong magnetic fields with energies in the diffuse component being at least comparable to the thermal and even as

## Papoular (2018) – A new interpretation of Serkowski’s polarization law

The basic tenets of the alternative interpretation to be presented here are that the spectral profiles of the star light polarization peaks observed in the visible and near IR are

## Maury et al. (2018) – Magnetically regulated collapse in the B335 protostar? I. ALMA observations of the polarized dust emission

The role of the magnetic field during protostellar collapse is poorly constrained from an observational point of view, although it could be significant if we believe state-of-the-art models of protostellar

## Gómez, Vázquez-Semadeni & Zamora-Avilés (2018) – The magnetic field structure in molecular cloud filaments

We explore the structure of magnetic field lines in and around filaments in simulations of molecular clouds undergoing global, multiscale gravitational collapse. In these simulations, filaments are not in a

## Planck Collaboration et al. (2018) – Planck 2018 results. XII. Galactic astrophysics using polarized dust emission

We present 353 GHz full-sky maps of the polarization fraction $p$, angle $\psi$, and dispersion of angles $S$ of Galactic dust thermal emission produced from the 2018 release of Planck

## Pattle et al. (2018) – First Observations of the Magnetic Field inside the Pillars of Creation: Results from the BISTRO Survey

We present the first high-resolution, submillimeter-wavelength polarimetric observations of—and thus direct observations of the magnetic field morphology within—the dense gas of the Pillars of Creation in M16. These 850 μm

## Wu et al. (2018) – Giant molecular cloud collisions as triggers of star formation. VI. Collision-induced turbulence

We investigate collisions between giant molecular clouds (GMCs) as potential generators of their internal turbulence. Using magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of self-gravitating, magnetized, turbulent GMCs, we compare kinematic and dynamic properties

## Clark (2018) – A New Probe of Line-of-sight Magnetic Field Tangling

The Galactic neutral hydrogen (H I ) sky at high Galactic latitudes is suffused with linear structure. Particularly prominent in narrow spectral intervals, these linear H I features are well

## Fissel et al. (2018) – Relative Alignment Between the Magnetic Field and Molecular Gas Structure in the Vela C Giant Molecular Cloud using Low and High Density Tracers

We compare the magnetic field orientation for the young giant molecular cloud Vela C inferred from 500-$\mu$m polarization maps made with the BLASTPol balloon-borne polarimeter to the orientation of structures

## Gomez, Vazquez-Semadeni & Zamora-Aviles (2018) – The magnetic field structure in molecular cloud filaments

We explore the structure of magnetic field lines in and around filaments in simulations of molecular clouds undergoing global, multi-scale gravitational collapse. In these simulations, filaments are not in a