An adiabatic approximation for grain alignment theory
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An adiabatic approximation for grain alignment theory
The alignment of interstellar dust grains is described by the joint distribution function for certain “internal” and “external” variables, where the former describe the orientation of a grain’s axes with respect to its angular momentum, J , and the latter describe the orientation of J relative to the interstellar magnetic field. I show how the large disparity between the dynamical timescales of...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0035-8711,1365-2966
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/291.2.345