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Dust Grain Orientation in the Interstellar Magnetic Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

A.Z. Dolginov
A.Z. Dolginov*
Affiliation:
A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute Academy of Sciences Politechnical str. 26 194021 Leningrad USSR

Abstract

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It is shown that the orientation of the dust grain body relative to its angular momentum J by the Barnett relaxation effect and the orientation of J relative to the interstellar magnetic field, by action of anisotropic gaseous fluxes, which always exist in space, is more effective than the orientation of the Davis-Greenstein mechanism. The linear interstellar polarization, which arises by scattering of radiation on oriented grains, is directed along the galactic magnetic field.

Type
5. The Polarization, Magnetic Field and Velocity Structure of External Spiral Galaxies
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 140: Galactic and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields , 1990 , pp. 242 - 244
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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