The Milky Way Atlas for Linear Filaments III: Giant filaments and magnetic fields as evidence of a bubbly Galactic disk

arXiv:2607.00976 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-01 · Read on arXiv

Naval K. Bhadari, Ke Wang, Shu-ichiro Inutsuka, Mingke Sun

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-07-01

Comments: 21 pages, 15 figures, 1 table, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Alignment — 28× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Monte Carlo — 7× in this paper
• ACT Data — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Atacama Cosmology Telescope — 3× in this paper
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• APEX — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Principal Component Analysis (PCA) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• FIELDMAPS Data Release: Far-Infrared Polarization in the "Bones" of the Milky Way
• Initial Conditions for Star Formation: A Physical Description of the Filamentary ISM
• Magnetic Fields in Massive Star-forming Regions (MagMaR). VI. Magnetic Field Dragging in the Filamentary High-mass Star-forming Region G35.20--0.74N due to Gravity
• Gravoturbulent Star Cluster Formation
• Magnetic Fields in the Bones of the Milky Way
• A census of 163 large-scale (>=10 pc), velocity-coherent filaments in inner Galactic plane: physical properties, dense gas fraction, and association with spiral arms

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