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辐射扭矩对线:基本物理过程

Radiative torque alignment: Essential Physical Processes

Thiem Hoang, Alex Lazarian

摘要:

我们研究的物理过程中,影响排列的晶粒受到辐射扭矩(RAT)。为了描述RAT的作用,我们使用论文I中介绍的RAT的分析模型(AMO)。我们重点讨论了各向异性辐射通量相对于磁场的取向,它定义了晶粒拉莫尔进动的轴。这种排列不引起顺磁耗散(即Davis-Greenstein机制),但是,尽管如此,晶粒倾向于与垂直于磁场的长轴排列。当我们考虑到晶粒材料内的热波动,我们表明,对于晶粒,其特征在于由一个三轴椭球的惯性,零- $J$吸引点在我们早期的研究中得到的发展成为一个低- $J$吸引点。我们研究了随机气体轰击的影响,并表明,气体轰击可以驱动晶粒从低- $J$到高- $J$吸引点的情况下,当高- $J$吸引点存在。由于晶粒轴相对于角动量的对准对于较高的$J$值较高,因此与直觉相反,气体轰击可以增加晶粒相对于磁场的对准程度。我们还研究了由H $_2$形成引起的力矩的影响,并表明它们可以改变高- $J$吸引子点的角动量值,但对低- $J$吸引子点的角动量值的影响很小。我们比较AMO的结果与那些使用直接数值计算的RAT作用于不规则的晶粒和验证使用的AMO的现实情况下的RAT对齐。

英文摘要:

We study the physical processes that affect the alignment of grains subject to radiative torques (RATs). To describe the action of RATs, we use the analytical model (AMO) of RATs introduced in Paper I. We focus our discussion on the alignment by anisotropic radiation flux with respect to magnetic field, which defines the axis of grain Larmor precession. Such an alignment does not invoke paramagnetic dissipation (i.e. Davis-Greenstein mechanism), but, nevertheless, grains tend to be aligned with long axes perpendicular to the magnetic field. When we account for thermal fluctuations within grain material, we show that for grains, which are characterized by a triaxial ellipsoid of inertia, the zero-$J$ attractor point obtained in our earlier study develops into a low-$J$ attractor point. We study effects of stochastic gaseous bombardment and show that gaseous bombardment can drive grains from low-$J$ to high-$J$ attractor points in cases when the high-$J$ attractor points are present. As the alignment of grain axes with respect to angular momentum is higher for higher values of $J$, counter-intuitively, gaseous bombardment can increase the degree of grain alignment in respect to the magnetic field. We also study the effects of torques induced by H$_2$ formation and show that they can change the value of angular momentum at high-$J$ attractor point, but marginally affect the value of angular momentum at low-$J$ attractor points. We compare the AMO results with those obtained using the direct numerical calculations of RATs acting upon irregular grains and validate the use of the AMO for realistic situations of RAT alignment.

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