Modeling Polarized Dust Emission from Aligned Grains by Radiative Torques

  • Lee, Hyeseung (Department of Astronomy and Space Science, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Lazarian, A. (Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin) ;
  • Chepurnov, A. (Kleinknechtstr)
  • Published : 2014.04.10

Abstract

We model the polarized dust emission from aligned grains by radiative torques in molecular clouds. We consider various models of molecular clouds and calculate the polarization spectrum from aligned grains by both internal and external radiation fields. We show that some polarization spectrum exhibits the bump at wavelengths ${\lambda}$ < $100{\mu}m$, which can be explained due to the polarized emission from a population of small grains aligned by internal radiation fields. Our polarization spectra can explain the anomalous spectra observed by Hildebrand et al, with the rising polarization toward short wavelengths

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