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Characterizing magnetic field morphologies in three Serpens protostellar cores with ALMA

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Pith's one-line read This paper argues that millimeter polarization along protostellar outflow cavity walls cannot be explained by radiative alignment of 0.1-micron interstellar dust; the aligned grains must have grown beyond 10 microns.

desk verdict New 40–50 au ALMA polarization maps are a solid, citable dataset, but the >10 µm grain-growth claim in cavity walls is not nailed down until the projection geometry is quantified. read the letter →

arxiv 1909.00046 v1 pith:MAAHCFBB submitted 2019-08-30 astro-ph.GA astro-ph.SR

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keywords dustpolarizationClass0protostarsmagneticfieldsradiativealignmenttorquesgraingrowthoutflowcavitywallssubmillimeterobservations
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The reading

The paper presents ALMA 870-micron dust polarization maps of three Class 0 protostars, the youngest stellar objects, at resolutions of 40 to 150 au. Its central claim is that the unusually high polarization fractions along outflow cavity walls in Serpens Emb 8(N), up to 36 percent, can be explained by radiative alignment torques only if the aligned grains are larger than 10 micrometers, far above the 0.1-micron interstellar dust standard. It also reports that the magnetic fields in the inner cores of SMM1-a and Emb 8(N) are poloidal, aligned with the bipolar outflows, rather than toroidally wrapped by rotation. If correct, the paper shows that dust grows to at least 10 microns at hundreds of au from the protostar, and that outflows shape both the magnetic field and the grain population in young envelopes.

What carries the argument

The machinery is the radiative alignment torque (RAT) mechanism, in which an anisotropic radiation field spins up dust grains that then precess into alignment with the magnetic field; the polarization angle is rotated by 90 degrees to infer the field. The load-bearing step is the penetration-depth calculation: using published dust opacities, the authors compute how far photons of each wavelength can travel into the wall before optical depth reaches unity. Because RATs are most efficient for photons whose wavelength is comparable to the grain size, the observed 200 au polarized layer can only be explained if grains as large as 10 microns exist to be spun by mid- and far-infrared photons. They also use spectral-index and brightness-temperature measurements to rule out self-scattering and k-RAT alignment, where grains align with the radiation field rather than the magnetic field, as the dominant polarization mechanism in the inner cores.

What would settle it

Measure the true thickness of the polarized wall in a nearly edge-on Class 0 outflow: if the wall is a projection and the physical penetration depth is under roughly 10 au, then 0.1-micron grains suffice and the >10 micron claim fails; if the wall remains about 200 au thick after correcting for projection, the large-grain scenario is confirmed.

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Core claim

On its own terms, the paper's discovery is that the observed polarized millimeter emission from the walls of the outflow cavities of Serpens Emb 8(N) requires a population of aligned dust grains larger than 10 micrometers at 500 to 1000 au scales in Class 0 envelopes. Using standard dust opacities, the authors estimate that UV and short-wavelength photons between 1 and 10 micrometers can penetrate only 1 to 35 au into the cavity walls, yet the polarized layer is observed to be roughly 200 au thick. Since radiative torques spin grains most efficiently when the photon wavelength is comparable to the grain size, such deep alignment requires grains of order 10 micrometers or larger. In addition, the polarization maps toward SMM1-a show a poloidal magnetic field at the base of the bipolar outflow, with the highly polarized emission aligned with the extremely high-velocity redshifted jet; two polarized filaments to the south are interpreted as an outflow cavity wall and a possible accretion streamer.

Load-bearing premise

The argument rests on the assumption that the 200 to 300 au polarized layer seen along the cavity wall is a physically thick slab of dust; if it is instead a thin curved wall projected on the sky, ultraviolet photons could reach all the grains and ordinary 0.1-micron interstellar dust would explain the polarization without invoking grain growth.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The inner roughly 200 au magnetic fields of SMM1-a and Emb 8(N) are poloidal and aligned with the bipolar outflow axis, with no toroidal component detected.
  • The molecular tracers anticorrelate with polarization: C18O and 13CS appear where dust is polarized, while DCO+ appears where it is not, identifying cold dense gas as a poor-alignment zone.
  • If the thick-wall interpretation stands, Class 0 envelopes at 500 to 1000 au must contain grains above 10 micrometers, which is far larger than the 0.1-micron interstellar dust population.
  • The polarization asymmetry at the base of the redshifted jet in SMM1-a indicates that mechanical alignment torques may augment radiative torques near fast jets.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If outflow activity transports large grains outward, as proposed in the paper's discussion, the same process could seed the outer envelope with material processed near the protostar, linking cavity walls to the composition of future planet-forming disks.
  • A direct observational extension would be to re-observe the same cavity walls at longer millimeter wavelengths: if grains larger than 10 micrometers are responsible, the polarization fraction should remain high, whereas self-scattering or k-RAT alignment would produce a different wavelength dependence.
  • Quantifying the projection effect the authors flag would settle the large-grain claim; a nearly edge-on outflow cavity or a kinematic measure of the wall's true depth would show whether the 200 au thickness is real or inflated.
  • The same RAT penetration-depth logic applied to the similar polarized walls of BHR 71 and B335 would indicate whether the large-grain requirement is a general feature of Class 0 outflows or specific to Serpens.
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Summary. This paper presents ALMA 870 μm dust polarization observations of three Class 0 protostars in Serpens Main (SMM1, Emb 8(N), Emb 8) at spatial resolutions of roughly 40–150 au, together with CO and dense-gas tracer maps. The main observational results are: (i) Emb 8(N) shows high polarization fractions, up to ~36%, along the outflow cavity walls with the inferred magnetic field running along the walls; (ii) SMM1-a shows a poloidal magnetic field in its inner ~200 au and two polarized filaments to the south, one interpreted as a redshifted cavity wall and one as a possible accretion streamer; and (iii) Emb 8 shows less outflow-correlated polarization. Based on a penetration-depth calculation in Section 4.4, the authors propose that RAT alignment in the Emb 8(N) cavity walls requires grains larger than 10 μm at ~500–1000 au scales, because UV and 10 μm photons penetrate only ~1–35 au into the walls while the polarized layer appears 200–300 au thick.

Significance. The observational material is valuable and generally carefully reduced: self-calibration, polarized-intensity debiasing, noise thresholds, and beam matching across dataset combinations are clearly described, and the maps are made available. The poloidal-field detection, the depolarization zones, and the molecular-line correlations are interesting observational results that stand independently of the grain-growth interpretation. If the >10 μm grain-growth claim were established, it would be an important constraint on early dust evolution in Class 0 envelopes. However, the claim is not yet established, because the conversion from the observed apparent width of the polarized layer to a physical penetration depth is not justified, as detailed below.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4.4, Eqs. (5)–(7)] The central claim that grains in the Emb 8(N) cavity walls must be larger than 10 μm is not established because the observed 200–300 au width of the polarized layer is used as if it were the physical thickness of the wall. The authors acknowledge in the same section that projection of a curved cavity wall will inflate the apparent thickness, but they do not quantify the inflation. For a paraboloidal shell of true thickness δ, the projected width can be hundreds of au while the line-of-sight path through the wall is much longer than δ; the column density from Eq. (6) is an average over that path and does not constrain the column density along the wall normal. If δ is only a few au, the normal-direction column could fall below the A_V ≈ 1 threshold (10^21–10^22 cm^-2) that the authors adopt, and ordinary 0.1 μm grains could be aligned by UV photons. The relevant comparison is between the computed penetration depth and the true physical thickness, not the projected width; the projection caveat therefore cuts against the paper's main conclusion and must be quantified before the >10 μm grain-growth claim can be accepted.
  2. [§4.4, footnote 6 and Eq. (7)] The gas densities used in Eq. (7) appear to be derived by dividing the aperture-averaged column density from Eq. (6) by a path length comparable to the 200 au aperture diameter; if so, the penetration-depth calculation presupposes the thick-wall geometry it is meant to test. The manuscript does not state the assumed path length or the resulting uncertainty. An independent estimate of the wall density, or a radiative-transfer model that includes the cavity geometry, is needed to break the degeneracy between physical thickness, line-of-sight path length, and density.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Figure 7 caption] The caption states 'The peak polarized intensity is 203 mJy beam^-1', but Figure 5 gives the peak polarized intensity as 6.28 mJy beam^-1 and the peak total intensity as 203 mJy beam^-1; this appears to be a typographical error.
  2. [§4.1] There is a duplicated word in 'the high (∼20%) polarization fractions observed observed by Planck'; please correct.
  3. [§4.1.2] The phrase 'the self-scattering effect is expecting to be the dominant polarization pattern' should read 'is expected to be'.
  4. [Abstract and §4.4] The abstract states that the aligned grains are at '<500 au scales', while the quantitative calculation in §4.4 is for a 200 au aperture centered at 600 au from the protostar; please clarify which spatial scales are actually being constrained.
  5. [§4.4, Eq. (5)] The mass derivation uses an opacity quoted at 1 mm (κ = 2.74 cm^2 g^-1) while the observations are at 870 μm; please justify the opacity choice or use the value appropriate to 870 μm.

Circularity Check

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Penetration-depth argument is self-contained, but the key thick-wall assumption is imported from an in-prep self-citation by overlapping authors, and the projection caveat is acknowledged but not quantified.

  1. self citation load bearing [Section 4.4, after Eq. (7)]
    "Hull et al. conclude that this scenario of a 'thick' layer of aligned dust grains in BHR 71 is more likely than the scenario where the polarization is produced by an extremely thin layer of grains aligned only by UV/optical photons. However, even given the likelihood of the thick-wall scenario, the numbers we calculate above are still an upper limit to the penetration depth. This is because the 'thick' wall we see will have its thickness increased, at least to a small degree, by the projection of the curved cavity wall onto the plane of the sky."

    The paper's headline inference—that >10 µm grains are present in the Emb 8(N) cavity walls—requires interpreting the observed 200–300 au polarized band as a physically thick layer. The only external justification for preferring the thick-layer interpretation over a thin curved wall projected on the sky is the conclusion of Hull et al. (2019), an in-prep manuscript by overlapping authors (Hull, Le Gouellec, and Girart are all authors of the present work). The calculation in Eqs. (5)–(7) only shows that UV cannot penetrate a layer with the observed line-of-sight column if that layer is physically ~300 au thick; it does not measure the physical thickness along the wall normal.

full rationale

The core derivation is self-contained: polarization fractions and angles are measured directly from ALMA Stokes I/Q/U data, the spectral index is fitted to visibilities, and the penetration-depth argument uses Eqs. (5)–(7) with adopted distance, temperature, and Ossenkopf & Henning (1994) opacities. None of these equations contains the >10 µm conclusion as an input, and no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction. The grain-growth claim is a conditional inference: if the polarized band is a physically thick (~300 au) wall, then UV/optical photons are extincted within ~1–35 au, so only longer-wavelength photons can align grains there, and RAT theory then requires grains larger than ~10 µm. The weakest link is the geometric assumption, which the authors acknowledge is an upper limit because of projection of the curved cavity wall onto the plane of the sky. That is a robustness caveat, not circularity. The one circularity-relevant feature is that the preference for the thick-wall scenario is imported from Hull et al. (2019), an in-prep paper by overlapping authors, rather than quantified in the present work. This self-citation is load-bearing for the headline claim, but it does not make the derivation equivalent to its inputs: the poloidal-field morphology, depolarization zones, and molecular-line correlations are observational results that stand independently of the grain-size inference. Score 4 reflects one load-bearing self-citation while the central derivation retains independent content.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new entities, forces, or conserved quantities. Its central interpretative claims rest on RAT theory, adopted dust opacities and temperatures, and a distance and inclination prior. The main hand-chosen inputs are the dust temperature (20 to 100 K), the HRO gradient thresholds, and the SMM1-a inclination; the spectral indices are measured fits. The grain-size inference is an abductive argument from penetration depths rather than a fit to the polarization data.

free parameters (4)
  • Dust temperature Td in mass derivation = 20 K (with 100 K used as an alternative)
    Chosen to convert 870 µm flux density to gas mass in Eq. 5; the 20 to 100 K range changes NH2 by roughly an order of magnitude, from 3.4e22 to 2.5e23 cm^-2.
  • Spectral index alpha of inner cores = SMM1-a: 2.39 +/- 0.02; Emb 8(N): 3.04 +/- 0.04; Emb 8: 3.36 +/- 0.01
    Fitted to 3 mm and 870 µm visibilities with UVMULTIFIT (Fig. 13); used to argue that the SMM1-a inner core is optically thick and to exclude self-scattering for Emb 8. This is a measured fit, not a knob introduced to force the central claim.
  • Source inclination of SMM1-a = 50 degrees (from Yildiz et al. 2015, with +/- 30 degrees uncertainty)
    Adopted in Section 4.2 to argue that the radial field pattern in the inner core is a projected poloidal field. The inclination prior affects the poloidal interpretation.
  • Gradient thresholds in HRO analysis = >1/100 (peak minus rms) for CO moment 0; >1/1000 (peak minus rms) for dust continuum
    Chosen by hand in Appendix B to select regions of high gradient; these choices determine which polarization vectors enter the histograms that support the cavity-wall alignment conclusion.
assumptions (6)
  • domain assumption Dust polarization traces the plane-of-sky magnetic field via B-RAT alignment
    Central interpretative assumption of Section 4.2. The authors argue against self-scattering and k-RAT variants in Section 4.1, but the discrimination is not decisive; they note the HRO distribution is broad and no disk is detected.
  • domain assumption RAT theory: photons with wavelength comparable to grain size dominate alignment
    Used in Section 4.4 to convert photon penetration depths into a required grain size greater than 10 µm, based on Lazarian & Hoang (2007).
  • domain assumption Ossenkopf & Henning (1994) opacities and a gas-to-dust ratio of 100 apply to the Serpens cavity walls
    Eqs. 5 to 7 use kappa_1mm = 2.74 cm2/g and standard gas-to-dust ratio; the derived column densities and penetration depths depend directly on these adopted values.
  • domain assumption Distance to Serpens Main is 436 pc
    From Ortiz-Leon et al. (2017); used throughout to convert angular scales to au and to compute masses and linear sizes.
  • domain assumption UV radiation is fully extincted at Av about 1, corresponding to N_H 1e21 to 1e22 cm^-2
    Adopted from Girart et al. (2005) PDR models in Section 4.4 to conclude that UV cannot penetrate the derived cavity-wall column densities.
  • domain assumption CCH and c-C3H2 emission trace UV-irradiated cavity walls
    Used in Section 4.4 to link cavity-wall irradiation to enhanced polarization; the correlation with CCH in Emb 8(N) is shown in Figure 17.

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  title        = {Pith review of: Characterizing magnetic field morphologies in three Serpens protostellar cores with ALMA},
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With the aim of characterizing the dynamical processes involved in the formation of young protostars, we present high angular resolution ALMA dust polarization observations of the Class 0 protostellar cores Serpens SMM1, Emb 8(N), and Emb 8. With spatial resolutions ranging from 150 to 40 au at 870 {\mu}m, we find unexpectedly high values of the polarization fraction along the outflow cavity walls in Serpens Emb8(N). We use 3 mm and 1 mm molecular tracers to investigate outflow and dense gas properties and their correlation with the polarization. These observations allow us to investigate the physical processes involved in the Radiative Alignment Torques (RATs) acting on dust grains along the outflow cavity walls, which experience irradiation from accretion processes and outflow shocks. The inner core of SMM1-a presents a polarization pattern with a poloidal magnetic field at the bases of the two lobes of the bipolar outflow. To the south of SMM1-a we see two polarized filaments, one of which seems to trace the redshifted outflow cavity wall. The other may be an accretion streamer of material infalling onto the central protostar. We propose that the polarized emission we see at millimeter wavelengths along the irradiated cavity walls can be reconciled with the expectations of RAT theory if the aligned grains present at '<' 500 au scales in Class 0 envelopes have grown larger than the 0.1 {\mu}m size of ISM dust grains. Our observations allow us to constrain the star-forming sources magnetic field morphologies within the central cores, along the outflow cavity walls, and in possible accretion streamers.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Magnetic field around Serpens Emb 8(N). Line segments represent the magnetic field orientation, rotated by 90◦ from the dust polarization angle χ (the length of the segments does not represent any quantity). They are plotted where the polarized intensity P > 3σP . The color scale is the total intensity (Stokes I) thermal dust emission, shown from 3σI . The gray contour indicates the 3σI level. Top Left: Dataset A, s… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Moment 0 map of CO (J = 2 → 1) in color scale overlaid with the total intensity contours and magnetic field orientations around Serpens Emb 8(N). The moment 0 map is constructed by integrating emission from –53 to 0 km s−1 (blue) and from 15 to 40 km s−1 (red). The vLSR is ∼ 8.5 km s−1 . The peaks of the red￾and blueshifted moment 0 maps are 2.10 Jy beam−1 km s−1 and 2.52 Jy beam−1 km s−1 , respectively. Same as [P… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. shows a significant amount of dust polarization along the outflow cavity walls, whereas the central region is unpolarized, at this resolution, where the Stokes I emis￾sion peaks. The lower resolution map ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Moment 0 maps of 13CS (J = 5 → 4), C18O (J = 2 → 1), and DCO+ (J = 3 → 2) around Serpens Emb 8(N). The black contours represent the total intensity (Stokes I) at the following levels: 7, 11, 16, 24, 44, 74, 128, 256 × σI , where σI = 55 µJy beam−1 , from Case-2. The vL…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Magnetic field around Serpens SMM1. Line segments represent the magnetic field orientation, rotated by 90◦ from the dust polarization angle χ (the length of the segments does not represent any quantity). They are plotted where the polarized intensity P > 3σP . The colo…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Moment 0 map of CO (J = 2 → 1) in color scale overlaid with the total intensity contours and magnetic field orientations around Serpens SMM1. Same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png]
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Dust polarization intensity (top) and polarization frac￾tion (bottom) in SMM1a, from Case-1. Same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_7.png]
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Magnetic field around Serpens Emb 8 from Case-1. Line segments represent the magnetic field orientation, rotated by 90◦ from the dust polarization angle χ (the length of the segments does not represent any quantity). They are plotted where the polarized intensity P > 3…
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Moment 0 map of CO (J = 2 → 1) in color scale overlaid with the total intensity contours and magnetic field orientations around Serpens Emb 8. Line segments represent the magnetic field orientation, rotated by 90◦ from the dust polarization angle χ (the length of the s…
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Dust polarization intensity (top) and polarization fraction (bottom) in Serpens Emb 8 from Dataset A. Same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_10.png]
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Polarization orientations in SMM1-a from Case-3. Same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_11.png]
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Histograms of relative orientation (HRO). Calculated HROs between the inferred magnetic field orientation and the density gradients in the total intensity maps (in grey), or in the blueshifted (in blue) and redshifted (in red) moment 0 maps of the CO (J = 2 → 1) low v…
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Flux evolution over frequency from the best-fit vis￾ibility models. The y-axis is the integrated flux in Jy obtained fitting a multiple 2D-Gaussian components to the source visibilities. The x-axis is the frequency in GHz. Two datasets were used here, containing obser…
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Brightness temperature map of the inner core of SMM1-a from Case-1. The color scale represents the brightness temperature calculated in the Rayleigh-Jeans approximation, at a wavelength of 870 µm. The brightness temperature peaks at 101 K. The black contours represent…
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Magnetic field and outflow around SMM1-a from Case-3. Same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_15.png]
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Distribution of the magnetic field position angles in our three protostars. We selected the position angles in the central ∼ 4 00 zone around each protostar, and where the polarized intensity was above the 3σP level, where σP is the rms noise level of the polarized in…
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_17.png]
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Moment 0 map of CCH (N = 3 → 2, J = 7/2 → 5/2, F = 4 → 3) around Serpens Emb 8(N). The black contours represent the total intensity (Stokes I) at the following levels: 11, 16, 24, 44, 74, 128, 256 × the rms level in the Stokes I dust emission map, where σI , where σI …
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: Schematic view of Serpens SMM1. The color scale is the total intensity (Stokes I) thermal dust emission from Case-1, shown when I > 3σI , from the combination of datasets A, B, and C; see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_18.png]
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: Gradient maps in Serpens Emb 8(N). The black contours trace the dust continuum from the Case-2 at 11, 16, 24, 44, 74, 128, 256 × σI in the total intensity dust emission map, where σI = 55 µJy beam−1 . Top left: The color scale represents the gradient within the centra…
Figure 20
Figure 20. Figure 20: Gradient maps in Serpens SMM1-a. The black contours trace the dust continuum from the Case-1 at 8, 12, 20, 32, 64, 128, 256 × σI in the total intensity dust emission map, where σI = 0.57 mJy beam−1 . Top left: The color scale represents the gradient derived within the…

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