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Interstellar Dust的偏振远红外和亚毫米辐射

Polarized Far-Infrared and Submillimeter Emission from Interstellar Dust

Bruce T. Draine, Aurélien A. Fraisse

摘要:

偏振远红外和亚毫米波发射计算模型的非球形尘埃颗粒,约束重现所观察到的波长相关的消光和偏振的星光。对于来自其中磁场垂直于视线的区域的发射,远红外发射预期在长于100微米的波长处具有实质上的线性偏振,但线性偏振的程度及其随波长的变化是依赖于模型的。其中星光偏振由无定形硅酸盐和石墨颗粒两者产生的模型在长于100微米的波长处具有6%至10%之间的线性偏振,但是对于其中仅硅酸盐颗粒是球状的一些模型,线性偏振从100微米处的约3%增加到约15在1毫米。我们简要地讨论了这些结果的影响,从宇宙微波背景的地图,以及根据远红外线和亚毫米线偏振观测区分星际尘埃模型的可能性。

英文摘要:

Polarized far-infrared and submillimeter emission is calculated for models of nonspherical dust grains that are constrained to reproduce the observed wavelength-dependent extinction and polarization of starlight. For emission from regions where the magnetic field is perpendicular to the line-of-sight, the far-infrared emission is expected to have substantial linear polarization at wavelengths longer than 100 microns, but the degree of linear polarization, and its variation with wavelength, is model-dependent. Models in which the starlight polarization is produced by both amorphous silicate and graphite grains have linear polarizations between 6% and 10% at wavelengths longer than 100 microns, but for some models in which only silicate grains are spheroidal, the linear polarization increases from about 3% at 100 microns to about 15% at 1 mm. We briefly discuss the implications of these results for removal of the polarized dust emission from maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background, as well as the possibility of discriminating among interstellar dust models based on observations of far-infrared and submillimeter linear polarization.

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