Spinning Dust Emission from Wobbling Grains: Important Physical Effects and Implications
arXiv:1211.0036 · doi:10.1155/2012/208159
Abstract
We review major progress on the modeling of electric dipole emission from rapidly spinning tiny dust grains, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). We begin by summarizing the original model of spinning dust proposed by Draine and Lazarian and recent theoretical results improving the Draine and Lazarian model. The review is focused on important physical effects that were disregarded in earlier studies for the sake of simplicity and recently accounted for by us, including grain wobbling due to internal relaxation, impulsive excitation by single-ion collisions, the triaxiality of grain shape, charge fluctuations, and the turbulent nature of astrophysical environments. Implications of the spinning dust emission for constraining physical properties of tiny dust grains and environment conditions are discussed. We discuss the alignment of tiny dust grains and possibility of polarized spinning dust emission. Suggestions for constraining the alignment of tiny grains and polarization of spinning dust emission are also discussed.
27 pages, 7 figures, review article accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy
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