Inelastic Dissipation in a Freely Rotating Body. Application to Cosmic-Dust Alignment

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1998-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9811040v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.303:673-685,1999

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted by MNRAS, 25 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02235.x

Motivated by a recent study by Lazarian and Draine, which showed that a high degree of grain alignment of the paramagnetic dust is achievable if the rates of internal relaxation are controlled by the Barnett relaxation process, we undertake a study of an alternative mechanism of internal dissipation, namely, the inelastic dissipation of energy in oblate dust grains. We find that deformations at double frequency that were disregarded in earlier studies dominate the inelastic relaxation. Our results indicate that for grains with 4:1 axis ratio, or/and grains formed via agglomeration inelastic relaxation dominates the Barnett relaxation within large (a>0.1 micron) grains even when they rotate at thermal rate. For grains with axis ratio less than 1:2 the inelastic relaxation is dominant when grains rotate suprathermally.

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