Far-Infrared Polarimetric Large Area CMZ Exploration (FIREPLACE) Overview
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Overview

A Legacy program to utilize HAWC+ to map the central region of the Galaxy at 214 um utilizing the shared-risk scan mode polarimetry observing strategy. The resulting data product yields a transformative data set for understanding the magnetic fields in the cool dust ring in the central 200 pc. Such a data set would elucidate the role of the magnetic field in Galactic center dynamics from the 200 pc scale down to scales below a parsec

If you use FIREPLACE data, please cite Butterfield et al. (2024a), Butterfield et al. (2024b), Pare et al. (2024), and the dataset Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.26131/IRSATBD.

Data Set Characteristics

Data ProductDescriptionData Access
Images SOFIA HAWC+ 214um polarimetry

FIREPLACE Documentation

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