Collaborative Project: "A Study of Magnetic Fields in Interstellar Molecular Clouds"

小行星9419227 伊利诺伊大学的Richard Crutcher博士和肯塔基州大学的托马斯特罗兰博士正在继续一个长期合作项目，以观察星际介质中分子云的磁场特性。 主要的努力将是利用塞曼效应测量磁场强度。 观测结果将通过与致密云结构和动力学的理论模型进行详细比较来解释。 因此，在未来几年内，我们可以预期，我们对稠密云层中磁场及其在星星形成这一基本天体物理问题中的作用的经验知识将有重大的扩展。

9419227 Crutcher Dr. Richard Crutcher, at the University of Illinois, and Dr. Thomas Troland, at the University of Kentucky, are continuing a long term collaborative project to observe the properties of magnetic fields in molecular clouds in the interstellar medium. The major effort will be to measure magnetic field strengths using the Zeeman effect. The observations will be interpreted by detailed comparison with theoretical models of the structure and dynamics of dense clouds. As a result, in the next few years one can expect a major expansion in our empirical knowledge of magnetic fields in dense clouds and their role in the fundamental astrophysical problem of star formation.