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

伊利诺斯大学的Richard Crutcher博士和肯塔基大学的Thomas Troland博士正在继续一项长期合作项目，以观察星际介质中分子云的磁场特性。主要的工作将是利用塞曼效应来测量磁场强度。观测结果将通过与致密云的结构和动力学理论模型的详细比较来解释。因此，在接下来的几年里，人们可以预期我们对稠密云中的磁场及其在恒星形成的基本天体物理问题中的作用的经验知识将有一个重大的扩展。

9419220 Troland 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.