Pith. sign in

REVIEW 1 cited by

Wide-Field Infrared Imaging Polarimetry of the NGC 6334 Region: A Nest of Infrared Reflection Nebulae

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

Re-run · record.json Download PDF Read on arXiv ↗

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 0804.0664 v1 pith:WQP7RPV3 submitted 2008-04-04 astro-ph

Wide-Field Infrared Imaging Polarimetry of the NGC 6334 Region: A Nest of Infrared Reflection Nebulae

J. Hashimoto , M. Tamura , R. Kandori , N. Kusakabe , Y. Nakajima , M. Kurita , T. Nagata , T. Nagayama
show 2 more authors
J. Hough A. Chrysostomou
This is my paper
classification astro-ph
keywords infraredirnedifferentevolutionarymassivenebulaepolarizationreflection
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved
0 comments
read the original abstract

We report the detection of eighteen infrared reflection nebulae (IRNe) in the $J$, $H$, & $Ks$ linear polarimetric observations of the NGC 6334 massive star-formation complex, of which 16 IRNe are new discoveries. Our images cover $\sim$180 square arcminutes, one of the widest near-infrared polarization data in star-formation regions so far. These IRNe are most likely associated with embedded young OB stars at different evolutionary phases, showing a variety of sizes, morphologies, and polarization properties, which can be divided into four categories. We argue the different nebula characteristics to be a possible evolutionary sequence of circumstellar structures around young massive stars.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 1 Pith paper

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. A nine-member protostellar system forming via filament fragmentation in the high mass protocluster NGC 6334-43

    astro-ph.GA 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    Serendipitous discovery of a bound nine-member protostellar system in NGC 6334-43 formed by filament fragmentation, with outflows from two sources and virial masses derived for three cores.