Bow Magnetic Morphology Surrounding Filamentary Molecular Clouds? 3D Magnetic Field Structure of Orion-A

Using a method based on Faraday rotation measurements, Tahani et al. 2018 find the line-of-sight component of magnetic fields in Orion-A and show that their direction changes from the eastern side of this filamentary structure to its western side. Three possible magnetic field morphologies that can explain this reversal across the Orion-A region are toroidal, helical, and bow-shaped morphologies. In this paper we construct simple models to represent these three morphologies and compare them with the available observational data to find the most probable morphology(ies). To compare the observations with the models, we use probability values and a Monte-Carlo analysis to determine the most likely magnetic field morphology among these three morphologies. We find that the bow morphology has the highest probability values and that our Monte-Carlo analysis suggests that the bow morphology is more likely. We suggest that the bow morphology is the most likely and the most natural of the three morphologies that could explain a magnetic field reversal across the Orion-A filamentary structure (i.e., bow, helical and toroidal morphologies).