Initial scientific results from SHARP have been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.  Our paper is entitled New Results on the Submillimeter Polarization Spectrum of the Orion Molecular Cloud, and the lead author is John Vaillancourt of Caltech.  To read it, click here.  We are currently finalizing the analyses for many other objects:

1. During a combined 90 minutes of observing during SHARP runs in November and December 2007, we mapped the environs of NGC 1333 IRAS 4A, where observers at the SMA had discovered what appears to be a magnetic "pinch" in a low-mass star forming region.  Here is our preliminary B-field map with the smaller-scale SMA result superposed. 
2. In August 2007 we mapped the isolated high-mass star forming region IRAS 20126.  For comparison purposes, we show our preliminary results together with JCMT data. 
3. Our results from December 2006 include polarimetry of NGC 253.  This is only the second instance of a submillimeter polarization map of an external galaxy. 
4. Preliminary analysis of results from April 2007 shows evidence of linear polarization in the 450 micron emission from Sagittarius A*. The level of polarization is about 5%.
5. In February 2007, we obtained a marginal (2-sigma) detection of polarization for the disk of DG Tau: The preliminary result is P = 1.3% +/- 0.6% at position angle 124 +/- 13 degrees.  The polarization direction is orthogonal to and smaller than that measured at 850 microns by Tamura et al. (1999 ApJ).  This is indicative of strong structure in the polarization spectrum, as might be expected if large grains are present.  For large grains, polarization by absorption and/or by scattering could be important.