TY - T1 - Dust polarization studies on MHD simulations of molecular clouds : comparison of methods for the relative-orientation analysis SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/329648 T3 - A1 - Micelotta, Elisabetta R.; Juvela, Mika; Padoan, Paolo; Ristorcelli, Isabelle; Alina, Dana; Malinen, Johanna A2 - PB - Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - Context. The all-sky survey from the Planck space telescope has revealed that thermal emission from Galactic dust is polarized on scales ranging from the whole sky down to the inner regions of molecular clouds. Polarized dust emission can therefore be used as a probe for magnetic fields on different scales. In particular, the analysis of the relative orientation between the density structures and the magnetic field projected on the plane of the sky can provide information on the role of magnetic... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - dust; extinction; magnetic fields; polarization; magnetohydrodynamics (MHD); radiative transfer; methods: numerical; 115 Astronomy, Space science; 114 Physical sciences N1 - PP - ER -