Circular polarization in star-formation regions: Implications for biomolecular homochirality

J Bailey, A Chrysostomou, JH Hough, TM Gledhill… - Science, 1998 - science.org
Strong infrared circular polarization resulting from dust scattering in reflection nebulae in the
Orion OMC-1 star-formation region has been observed. Circular polarization at shorter …

Astronomical polarimetry

J Tinbergen - Astronomical Polarimetry, 2005 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
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NASA/ADS Astronomical Polarimetry Tinbergen, Jaap Abstract 1. Introduction; 2. A description …

Mid-infrared imaging of Orion BN/KL. II. Luminosity sources, extinction distribution, and the nature of IRc2

DY Gezari, DE Backman… - The Astrophysical Journal, 1998 - iopscience.iop.org
We have recalculated the luminosities of IRc2 and the BN Object in the Orion BN/KL
complex and determined the distributions of color temperature and silicate absorption-line …

Extended high circular polarization in the Orion massive star forming region: Implications for the origin of homochirality in the solar system

T Fukue, M Tamura, R Kandori, N Kusakabe… - Origins of Life and …, 2010 - Springer
We present a wide-field (∼ 6′× 6′) and deep near-infrared (K s band: 2.14 μm) circular
polarization image in the Orion nebula, where massive stars and many low-mass stars are …

UV circular polarisation in star formation regions: the origin of homochirality?

PW Lucas, JH Hough, J Bailey, A Chrysostomou… - Origins of Life and …, 2005 - Springer
Ultraviolet circularly polarised light has been suggested as the initial cause of the
homochirality of organic molecules in terrestrial organisms, via enantiomeric selection of …

Foreground and background dust in star cluster directions

CM Dutra, E Bica - ar**, M Morris, J Bally - The Astronomical Journal, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new mid-infrared (12.5 μm) map of the BN/KL high-mass star-forming complex
in Orion using the LWS instrument on Keck I. Despite poor weather we achieved nearly …

A JWST survey of the Trapezium Cluster & inner Orion Nebula. I. Observations & overview

MJ McCaughrean, SG Pearson - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.03552, 2023 - arxiv.org
We present a near-IR survey of the Trapezium Cluster and inner Orion Nebula using the
NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The survey with the NIRCam instrument …

NICMOS 2 micron continuum and H2 images of OMC-1

SR Stolovy, MG Burton, EF Erickson… - The Astrophysical …, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
The core of OMC-1 has been imaged with the Near-Infrared Camera and Multiobject
Spectrometer (NICMOS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope at 0 &farcs; 2 resolution in …