Thermal Flipping of Interstellar Grains

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dc.creatorWeingartner, Joseph C.
dc.date2008-08-27
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:15:22Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:15:22Z
dc.descriptionIn interstellar dust grains, internal processes dissipate rotational kinetic energy. The dissipation is accompanied by thermal fluctuations, which transfer energy from the vibrational modes to rotation. Together, these processes are known as internal relaxation. For the past several years, internal relaxation has been thought to give rise to thermal flipping, with profound consequences for grain alignment theory. I show that thermal flipping is not possible in the limit that the inertia tensor does not vary with time.
dc.description5 pages, accepted by ApJ
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3727
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3727
dc.identifierAstrophys.J.690:875-878,2009
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0004-637X/690/1/875
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/211480
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThermal Flipping of Interstellar Grains
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