Alignment of dust grains in ionized regions

Details Alignment of dust grains in ionized regions Alignment of dust grains in ionized regions

Mar 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993a%26a...270..477a&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 270, no. 1-2, p. 477-479.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Cosmic Dust, H Ii Regions, Infrared Radiation, Ionized Gases, Plasma Composition, Electron Plasma, Ion Distribution

Scientific paper

The rate at which charged dust grains in a plasma are torqued by passing ions and electrons is calculated. When photo-emission of electrons is not important, attraction of ions by the grain monopole potential increases the rate at which the grains' spins are dealigned by nearly an order of magnitude. Consequently, the energy density of the magnetic field required to align grains in an H II region may be increased by about an order of magnitude. In contrast, electric dipole and quadrupole moments are unlikely to produce large dealignment rates for grains of modest length-to-width ratio. Nonetheless, for positively charged grains these higher-order moments likely prevent monopole repulsion of ions from reducing the dealignment rate far below that for neutral grains. The presence of positive grain charge therefore does not greatly facilitate grain alignment in an H II region.

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