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Magnetic Alignment Theory and the Interpretation of Polarization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Pierre Cugnon
Pierre Cugnon*
Affiliation:
Observatoire Royal de Belgique

Abstract

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This paper presents some reflexions about the theory of magnetic spinning alignment. It is shown that a classical enhanced thermal Davis and Greenstein mechanism may be considered as a limiting case of Purcell's suprathermal spinning alignment theory when the number of active sites on a given grain becomes very important and/or for very short-lived suprathermal sites.

This result is applied to the interstellar medium and some problems in which it may be important are briefly discussed, with special attention to local implications.

Type
Theoretical Models
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 81: Local Interstellar Medium , 1984 , pp. 315 - 318
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1984

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