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astro-ph.GA2021★ 3 cited
The alignment of interstellar dust grains: thermal flipping and the Davis-Greenstein mechanism
Joseph C. Weingartner, Erald Kolasi, Cameron Woods
Interstellar dust grains are non-spherical and, in some environments, partially aligned along the direction of the interstellar magnetic field. Numerous alignment theories have bee…
astro-ph.GA2017★ 3 cited
Barnett relaxation in non-symmetric grains
Erald Kolasi, Joseph C. Weingartner
Barnett relaxation, first described by Purcell in 1979, appears to play a major role in the alignment of grains with the interstellar magnetic field. In 1999, Lazarian and Draine p…