Susan E. Clark
Assistant Professor of Physics
Administrative Appointments
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Co-Director, Center for Decoding the Universe, Stanford Data Science (2024 - Present)
Honors & Awards
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Helen B. Warner Prize, American Astronomical Society (2025)
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Chambers Fellow, Stanford University (2024 -- 2027)
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Sloan Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2024)
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Terman Fellow, Stanford University (2021)
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Hubble Fellow, NASA (2017 -- 2020)
Professional Education
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Ph.D., Columbia University, Astrophysics (2017)
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B.S., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Physics (2012)
2025-26 Courses
- Computational Physics
PHYSICS 113 (Spr) - Stars and Planets in a Habitable Universe
PHYSICS 15 (Aut) -
Independent Studies (5)
- Curricular Practical Training
PHYSICS 291 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Directed Studies in Applied Physics
APPPHYS 290 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Independent Research and Study
PHYSICS 190 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Research
PHYSICS 490 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Senior Thesis Research
PHYSICS 205 (Spr)
- Curricular Practical Training
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Prior Year Courses
2024-25 Courses
- Stars and Planets in a Habitable Universe
PHYSICS 15 (Aut)
2023-24 Courses
- Computational Physics
PHYSICS 113 (Spr) - Stars and Planets in a Habitable Universe
PHYSICS 15 (Aut)
2022-23 Courses
- Stars and Planets in a Habitable Universe
PHYSICS 15 (Win)
- Stars and Planets in a Habitable Universe
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Jack Dinsmore, Sydney Erickson, Chloe Taylor, Josephine Wong -
Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
Philipp Frank, Jae Yeon Kim, Eric Moseley -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Ben Dodge, Kaitlyn Karpovich, Minjie Lei, Marta Nowotka -
Doctoral (Program)
Ben Dodge
All Publications
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Neutral Gas Phase Distribution from H <sc>I</sc> Morphology: Phase Separation with Scattering Spectra and Variational Autoencoders
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2025; 993 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ae044a
View details for Web of Science ID 001598237900001
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Joint Analysis of H <sc>I</sc> Absorption Zeeman Measurements and the Morphology of Filamentary H <sc>I</sc> Emission
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2025; 992 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/adff52
View details for Web of Science ID 001590312600001
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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 power spectrum foreground model and validation
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2025
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2025/10/082
View details for Web of Science ID 001603189000003
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Full-sky Models of Galactic Microwave Emission and Polarization at Subarcminute Scales for the Python Sky Model
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2025; 991 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/adf212
View details for Web of Science ID 001570246100001
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PRIMA Vista: far-infrared polarimetry to unveil small-scale magnetohydrodynamics in extragalactic observations
JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES INSTRUMENTS AND SYSTEMS
2025; 11 (3)
View details for DOI 10.1117/1.JATIS.11.3.031620
View details for Web of Science ID 001588249400033
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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Systematic Transient Search of Single Observation Maps
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2025; 986 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/adce70
View details for Web of Science ID 001500572500001
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A Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Study of Cold Gas in the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds Using the GASKAP-H <sc>i</sc> Survey
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
2025; 169 (5)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-3881/adc67c
View details for Web of Science ID 001479287000001
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Modeling parity-violating spectra in Galactic dust polarization with filaments and its applications to cosmic birefringence searches
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2025; 111 (8)
View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.111.083532
View details for Web of Science ID 001493107700004
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Faraday moments of the Southern Twenty-centimeter All-sky Polarization Survey (STAPS)
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
2025; 695
View details for DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202449556
View details for Web of Science ID 001442985200001
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The Fallibility of Equipartition Magnetic Field Strengths from Synchrotron Emission Using Synthetically Observed Galaxies
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2025; 980 (2)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/adab72
View details for Web of Science ID 001421905900001
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The magnetic field of the Radcliffe wave: Starlight polarization at the nearest approach to the Sun
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
2025; 694
View details for DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202450991
View details for Web of Science ID 001414735800014
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Emergence of high-mass stars in complex fiber networks (EMERGE) V. From filaments to spheroids: the origin of the hub-filament systems
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
2025; 694
View details for DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202450779
View details for Web of Science ID 001414753300001
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Local H <sc>i</sc> absorption towards the magellanic cloud foreground using ASKAP
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
2024; 534 (4): 3478-3497
View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stae2274
View details for Web of Science ID 001340218200016
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A New Constraint on the Relative Disorder of Magnetic Fields between Neutral Interstellar Medium Phases
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2024; 972 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ad5ade
View details for Web of Science ID 001298578700001
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Imprints of the Local Bubble and Dust Complexity on Polarized Dust Emission
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2024; 973 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ad61e0
View details for Web of Science ID 001314687100001
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Extragalactic Magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program). VII. A Tomographic View of Far-infrared and Radio Polarimetric Observations through MHD Simulations of Galaxies
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2024; 966 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ad2e9e
View details for Web of Science ID 001208075400001
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The first degree-scale starlight-polarization-based tomography map of the magnetized interstellar medium
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
2024; 684
View details for DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202349015
View details for Web of Science ID 001206558600002
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Zero-polarization candidate regions for the calibration of wide-field optical polarimeters
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
2024; 684
View details for DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202348099
View details for Web of Science ID 001201706400003
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Atacama Cosmology Telescope: High-resolution component-separated maps across one third of the sky
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
2024; 109 (6)
View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.063530
View details for Web of Science ID 001202243300002
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The BLAST Observatory: A Sensitivity Study for Far-IR Balloon-borne Polarimeters
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC
2024; 136 (3)
View details for DOI 10.1088/1538-3873/ad2e11
View details for Web of Science ID 001192093400001
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On the evolution of the observed mass-to-length relationship for star-forming filaments
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
2024; 528 (4): 6370-6387
View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stae407
View details for Web of Science ID 001169271500004
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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Measurement of the DR6 CMB Lensing Power Spectrum and Its Implications for Structure Growth
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2024; 962 (2)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/acfe06
View details for Web of Science ID 001184986700001
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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Gravitational Lensing Map and Cosmological Parameters
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2024; 962 (2)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/acff5f
View details for Web of Science ID 001173957900001
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Filamentary Dust Polarization and the Morphology of Neutral Hydrogen Structures
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2024; 961 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ad06aa
View details for Web of Science ID 001140259200001
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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Galactic Dust Structure and the Cosmic PAH Background in Cross-correlation with WISE
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2024; 960 (2)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ad05cd
View details for Web of Science ID 001135205500001
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The kinematic structure of magnetically aligned H i filaments
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
2023; 526 (3): 4345-4358
View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stad2792
View details for Web of Science ID 001097539800006
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A new method for spatially resolving the turbulence-driving mixture in the ISM with application to the Small Magellanic Cloud
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
2023; 526 (1): 982-999
View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stad2718
View details for Web of Science ID 001143760100040
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The Structure of Magnetic Fields in Spiral Galaxies: A Radio and Far-infrared Polarimetric Analysis
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2023; 954 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ace4c0
View details for Web of Science ID 001052488400001
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Tensor-to-scalar ratio forecasts for extended LiteBIRD frequency configurations
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
2023; 676
View details for DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202346155
View details for Web of Science ID 001045464800004
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Polarization fraction of Planck Galactic cold clumps and forecasts for the Simons Observatory
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
2023; 524 (3): 3712-3723
View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stad2099
View details for Web of Science ID 001050361400039
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Extragalactic Magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program). V. First Results on the Magnetic Field Orientation of Galaxies
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2023; 952 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/acd934
View details for Web of Science ID 001029786000001
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Probing cosmic inflation with the LiteBIRD cosmic microwave background polarization survey
PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS
2023; 2023 (4)
View details for DOI 10.1093/ptep/ptac150
View details for Web of Science ID 000991985400001
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Probing the Cold Neutral Medium through H I Emission Morphology with the Scattering Transform
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2023; 947 (2)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/acc02a
View details for Web of Science ID 000977920900001
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Magnetic Misalignment of Interstellar Dust Filaments
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2023; 946 (2)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/acb0c4
View details for Web of Science ID 000964553100001
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H I filaments as potential compass needles? Comparing the magnetic field structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud to the orientation of GASKAP-H I filaments
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
2023; 521 (1): 60-83
View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stad462
View details for Web of Science ID 000943182900004
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BICEP/Keck. XVI. Characterizing Dust Polarization through Correlations with Neutral Hydrogen
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2023; 945 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/acb64c
View details for Web of Science ID 000951183700001
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CCAT-prime Collaboration: Science Goals and Forecasts with Prime-Cam on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
2023; 264 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4365/ac9838
View details for Web of Science ID 000917024400001
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Extragalactic Magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program): The Magnetic Fields in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium of the Antennae Galaxies*
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
2023; 942 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/2041-8213/acaaa2
View details for Web of Science ID 000906861000001
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Optical Characterization of OMT-Coupled TES Bolometers for LiteBIRD
JOURNAL OF LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS
2022
View details for DOI 10.1007/s10909-022-02808-7
View details for Web of Science ID 000850026800010
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Extragalactic Magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program). III. First Data Release and On-the-fly Polarization Mapping Characterization*
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2022; 936 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac83ac
View details for Web of Science ID 000847883800001
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Extragalactic Magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program). IV. Program Overview and First Results on the Polarization Fraction*
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2022; 936 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7f9d
View details for Web of Science ID 000850192400001
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The width of Herschel filaments varies with distance
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
2022; 663
View details for DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202142281e
View details for Web of Science ID 000819856200003
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A Study of 90 GHz Dust Emissivity on Molecular Cloud and Filament Scales
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2022; 929 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5d4f
View details for Web of Science ID 000783320700001
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The Simons Observatory: Galactic Science Goals and Forecasts
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2022; 929 (2)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5e36
View details for Web of Science ID 000788285800001
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A Comparison of Multiphase Magnetic Field Tracers in a High Galactic Latitude Region of the Filamentary Interstellar Medium
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2022; 927 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac400d
View details for Web of Science ID 000763676900001
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GASKAP-HI pilot survey science I: ASKAP zoom observations of Hi emission in the Small Magellanic Cloud
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA
2022; 39
View details for DOI 10.1017/pasa.2021.59
View details for Web of Science ID 000751818000001
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The Hough Stream Spotter: A New Method for Detecting Linear Structure in Resolved Stars and Application to the Stellar Halo of M31
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2022; 926 (2)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac4496
View details for Web of Science ID 000759140200001
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GASKAP Pilot Survey Science. II. ASKAP Zoom Observations of Galactic 21 cm Absorption
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2022; 926 (2)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac3a89
View details for Web of Science ID 000763085200001
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The width of Herschel filaments varies with distance
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
2022; 657
View details for DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202142281
View details for Web of Science ID 000744641300001
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Extragalactic Magnetism with SOFIA (Legacy Program)-II: A Magnetically Driven Flow in the Starburst Ring of NGC 1097*
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2021; 923 (2)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac2e01
View details for Web of Science ID 000731165100001
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The Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey (GMIMS): the brightest polarized region in the southern sky at 75 cm and its implications for Radio Loop II
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
2021; 507 (3): 3495-3518
View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stab1805
View details for Web of Science ID 000708848000025
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Extragalactic Magnetism with SOFIA (Legacy Program). I. The Magnetic Field in the Multiphase Interstellar Medium of M51*
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2021; 921 (2)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac16d7
View details for Web of Science ID 000716130200001
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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Microwave Intensity and Polarization Maps of the Galactic Center
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2021; 920 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac133f
View details for Web of Science ID 000704145300001
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The Origin of Parity Violation in Polarized Dust Emission and Implications for Cosmic Birefringence
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2021; 919 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac0e35
View details for Web of Science ID 000698476400001
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Evidence for line-of-sight frequency decorrelation of polarized dust emission in Planck data
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
2021; 647
View details for DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202040218
View details for Web of Science ID 000626727300001
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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: a measurement of the Cosmic Microwave Background power spectra at 98 and 150 GHz
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2020
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/12/045
View details for Web of Science ID 000609105900031
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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR4 maps and cosmological parameters
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
2020
View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/12/047
View details for Web of Science ID 000609105900033
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Mapping the Magnetic Interstellar Medium in Three Dimensions over the Full Sky with Neutral Hydrogen
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2019; 887 (2)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ab5803
View details for Web of Science ID 000506012000030
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Small-scale H i Channel Map Structure Is Cold: Evidence from Na i Absorption at High Galactic Latitudes
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
2019; 886 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/2041-8213/ab53de
View details for Web of Science ID 000499327900001
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Through thick or thin: multiple components of the magneto-ionic medium towards the nearby Hii region Sharpless 2-27 revealed by Faraday tomography
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
2019; 487 (4): 4751-4767
View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stz1438
View details for Web of Science ID 000475888500022
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The Physical Nature of Neutral Hydrogen Intensity Structure
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2019; 874 (2)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ab0b3b
View details for Web of Science ID 000463537200009
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A New Probe of Line-of-sight Magnetic Field Tangling
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
2018; 857 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/2041-8213/aabb54
View details for Web of Science ID 000429945000002
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Galactic neutral hydrogen and the magnetic ISM foreground
edited by Jelic, VanDerHulst, T.
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. 2018: 146-150
View details for DOI 10.1017/S1743921317011462
View details for Web of Science ID 000455232000029
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The GALFA-HI Survey Data Release 2
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
2018; 234 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4365/aa91d3
View details for Web of Science ID 000418816100002
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The Weakly Nonlinear Magnetorotational Instability in a Local Geometry
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2017; 841 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6ff1
View details for Web of Science ID 000401582200001
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The Weakly Nonlinear Magnetorotational Instability in a Global, Cylindrical Taylor-Couette Flow
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2017; 841 (1)
View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/aa6ff6
View details for Web of Science ID 000401582200002
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Three-dimensional orientation of compact high velocity clouds
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
2016; 462 (1): L46-L50
View details for DOI 10.1093/mnrasl/slw124
View details for Web of Science ID 000383516700010
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Matching dust emission structures and magnetic field in high-latitude cloud L1642: comparing Herschel and Planck maps
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
2016; 460 (2): 1934-1945
View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stw1061
View details for Web of Science ID 000379832800062
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Neutral Hydrogen Structures Trace Dust Polarization Angle: Implications for Cosmic Microwave Background Foregrounds
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
2015; 115 (24): 241302
Abstract
Using high-resolution data from the Galactic Arecibo L-Band Feed Array HI (GALFA-Hi) survey, we show that linear structure in Galactic neutral hydrogen (Hi) correlates with the magnetic field orientation implied by Planck 353 GHz polarized dust emission. The structure of the neutral interstellar medium is more tightly coupled to the magnetic field than previously known. At high Galactic latitudes, where the Planck data are noise dominated, the Hi data provide an independent constraint on the Galactic magnetic field orientation, and hence the local dust polarization angle. We detect strong cross-correlations between template maps constructed from estimates of dust intensity combined with either Hi-derived angles, starlight polarization angles, or Planck 353 GHz angles. The Hi data thus provide a new tool in the search for inflationary gravitational wave B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background, which is currently limited by dust foreground contamination.
View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.241302
View details for Web of Science ID 000366171900001
View details for PubMedID 26705622
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Quantifying the Magnetic Alignment of HIand Dust in the Diffuse ISM
edited by Jablonka, P., Andre, P., VanDerTak, F.
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. 2015
View details for DOI 10.1017/S1743921316007742
View details for Web of Science ID 000387795900013
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MAGNETICALLY ALIGNED HI FIBERS AND THE ROLLING HOUGH TRANSFORM
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
2014; 789 (1)
View details for DOI 10.1088/0004-637X/789/1/82
View details for Web of Science ID 000338103400082
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PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF COMPLEX C HALO CLOUDS
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
2011; 141 (2)
View details for DOI 10.1088/0004-6256/141/2/57
View details for Web of Science ID 000286186100029
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