Authors: Richard Shurtleff
This article surveys polarized starlight in the Milky Way Galaxy. The data for the 5830 stars is taken from the agglomeration by Heiles 2000 and the Berdyugin 2014 catalog. The survey applies a particular test for transverse vector correlation, the Hub Test of spherical geodesic alignment with points on the sky. One finds a large collection of some 902 stars on the Galactic Disk from galactic longitude 90\[Degree] to 150\[Degree], These stars are distinguished by having, by far, the most significantly aligned stellar polarizations in the survey. Thus the most obviously aligned regions are identified. On the subtle side, we identify two smaller collections, 67 and 75 stars, that are each exceedingly well aligned and adjacent on the sky. These two collections show that the method can be used to locate samples with distinct, but slight, differences in their properties. The selections show how samples can be identified by the Hub Test for further study. The appendix consists of a self-contained computer software program that performs the needed calculations.
Comments: 14 page paper plus 43 page computer program Appendix; 31 Figures
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