On Internal and External Alignment of Dust Grains in Protostellar Environments

Thiem Hoang, Le Ngoc Tram, Vo Hong Minh Phan +3

We study the physical processes inducing the alignment of the grain axis of maximum inertia moment with the angular momentum ($\mathbf{J}$, i.e., internal alignment) and of $\mathbf{J}$…