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Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- 1.INTRODUCTION
- 1.1.Man-made Magnetism
- 1.2.Natural Magnetism
- 1.3.Aims of this Review
- 2.MAGNETIC FIELDS IN SMALL BODIES:
METEORITES, COMETARY NUCLEI, ASTEROIDS, MOONS, PLANETS
- 2.1.Remanent Magnetism
- 2.2.Dipolar-shaped Magnetic Field
- 2.3.Magnetic Moment and Angular
Momentum
- 3.MAGNETIC FIELDS IN STARS AND IN THE
INTERPLANETARY MEDIUM
- 3.1.Sun (~ 106 km; ~
10-7 pc) (~ 10 Gauss)
- 3.2.Spiral-shaped Interplanetary
Magnetic Field (~
108 km; ~ 10-6 pc) (~ 10-5 Gauss)
- 3.3.Normal Stars (~ 106
to 107 km; ~ 10-7 pc)
- 3.4.Degenerate Stars, White Dwarfs (~
2000 km) (~ 106 Gauss)
- 3.5.Neutron Stars (~ 10 km)
- 4.CIRCUMSTELLAR MAGNETIC FIELDS (OUT TO
200 AU; ~ 10-3 PC)
- 4.1.Cataclysmic Binary Objects (~
105 km) (~ 106 Gauss) and Polars (~ 6 ×
107 Gauss)
- 4.2.Late-type Variable Giant Stars (~
108 km), Young Stars
- 4.3.Double Stars and Symbiotic Stars (~
1010 km; ~ 10-3 pc)
- 4.4.Masers at Centimeter and
Millimeter Wavelengths (~ 109 km; ~ 10-4 parsec)
- 4.5.Circumstellar Gas (out to ~ 3
× 1010 km; ~ 0.001 pc)
- 5.METHODOLOGY AND INSTRUMENTATION FOR
PROTOSTELLAR AND INTERSTELLAR DETECTION
- 5.1.Basic detection concepts at
Radio, Extreme IR, Far IR, and Mid IR Wavelengths
- 5.2.Instrumentation at Long
Infrared Wavelengths
- 6.PREDICTED MAGNETIC FIELDS IN
PROTOSTELLAR DISKS (OUT TO ~ 2000 AU OR SO; ~ 10-2 PARSEC)
AND DENSE INTERSTELLAR STARFORMING CLOUDLETS (0.1 TO 1 PC)
- 6.1.Distinctions of sizes
- 6.2.Magnetic Fields and Star
Formation Onsets
- 6.3.Collapse models
- 6.4.Magnetic Disk Classes
- 6.5.Expected B with Time
- 6.6.Other Theoretical Ideas
- 7.OBSERVED MAGNETIC FIELDS IN
PROTOSTELLAR DISKS (OUT TO ~ 200 AU OR SO; ~ 10-2 PC) AND
DENSE INTERSTELLAR STARFORMING CLOUDLETS (0.1 TO 1 PC)
- 7.1.Excess line width for small objects
(sizes < 1 parsec)
- 7.2.Magnetic Field Strengths
- 7.3.Polarization Percentages and
Physical Parameters
- 7.4.Polarization Position angles and
Physical Parameters
- 7.5.Some Mapping Results So Far (
10-3 Gauss)
- 7.6.Many Unanswered Questions
- 8.STRIPES AND CLOUDLETS AT
NEAR-INFRARED, OPTICAL, AND ULTRAVIOLET WAVELENGTHS (~ 10-6)
GAUSS)
- 8.1.Gas Stripes near Planetary
Nebulae
- 8.2.Cloudlets in Filaments
- 8.3.Diffuse Interstellar Dust Near and
in between Stars
- 9.CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
