Magnetic fields remain aligned with projected gravity throughout the DR21 ridge and sub-filaments, indicating guided accretion at rates that can build the ridge in about one million years.
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Polarization observations reveal scale-dependent differences in magnetic field morphology between molecular clouds and clumps, a velocity-dispersion correlation, and unreliable field-strength estimates that contradict flux conservation.
Low-column-density filaments align parallel to magnetic fields while high-column-density wide filaments align perpendicular, with transition at roughly 0.8-8 x 10^21 cm^-2; projection effects analyzed statistically.
Synthetic Herschel observations from simulations yield 8832 filaments hosting 94% of clumps, with power-law mass and length distributions and a density relation qualitatively matching the Hi-GAL survey.
Reviews SKA techniques for reconstructing 3D magnetic field vectors in the ISM but presents no new data or derivations.
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SIMPLIFI -- Study of Interstellar Magnetic Polarization: a Legacy Investigation of Filaments. I. Magnetically-Guided Accretion onto the DR21 Ridge
Magnetic fields remain aligned with projected gravity throughout the DR21 ridge and sub-filaments, indicating guided accretion at rates that can build the ridge in about one million years.