## Magnetic Field 1000AU Scale

Single dish observation with JCMT can reveal a structure larger than 5000-10000AU (Fig.1.23). Smaler-scale configuration of magnetic field is able to be reached with interferometric observation such as SMA. Figure 1.24 indicates a 1000 AU-scale configuration of magnetic field for a low-mass star forming region NGS 1333 IRAS 4A (Girart, Rao & Marrone 2006). Although this is a complex region, a core extends from the upper-left to the lowe-right. The magnetic field (Fig.1.24(right)) runs from the upper-right to the lower-left and this clearly shows 'hour-glass' shape. This means that the magnetic field is squeezed by the effect of contraction in the star formation process.

They fitted the magnetic field line by a polynomial as

 (1.12)

where and , distances along the symmetic axis and along the major axis of the disk, respectively. They obtained .

SMA observation for G31.41+0.31 (Fig. 1.25) also reviels that the magnetic field configuration of AU scale for high-mass star forming region is hour-glass'' shape (Girart et al. 2009). This may indicate the magnetic field is draged by the infall motion. However, this can not be fitted with the configuration of the magnetic field line obtained with single dish observations, since Fourier component with the small wave-number is not sufficiently picked up in the interferometric observation. In other words, large-scale (more or less uniform) magnetic field is underestimated in the interferometric observations.

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