Near-Infrared Polarization Source Catalog of the Northeastern Regions of
  the Large Magellanic Cloud
  We present a near-infrared band-merged photometric and polarimetric catalog
for the 39$\arcmin$ $\times$ 69$\arcmin$ fields on the northeastern part of the
Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which were observed using SIRPOL, an imaging
polarimeter of the InfraRed Survey Facility (IRSF). This catalog lists 1,858
sources brighter than 14 mag at $H$ band with polarization signal-to-noise
ratio greater than three in the $J$, $H$, or $K_s$ bands. Based on the
relationship between the extinction and the polarization degree, we argue that
the polarization mostly arises from dichroic extinctions caused by local
interstellar dust in the LMC. This catalog allows us to map polarization
structures to examine the global geometry of the local magnetic field, and to
show a statistical analysis of polarization of each field to understand its
polarization properties. At the selected fields with coherent polarization
position angles, we estimate magnetic field strengths in the range of 3$-$25
$\mu$G using the Chandrasekhar-Fermi method. This implies the presence of
large-scale magnetic fields on a scale of around one hundred parsecs. When
comparing mid and far-infrared dust emission maps, we confirmed that the
polarization patterns are well aligned with molecular clouds around the
star-forming regions.
