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Are Silicon Nanoparticles an Interstellar Dust Component?
Aigen Li, B. T. Draine
Silicon nanoparticles (SNPs) have been proposed as the source of the observed "extended red emission" (ERE) from interstellar dust. We calculate the thermal emission expected from…
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Infrared Emission from Interstellar Dust. II. The Diffuse Interstellar Medium
Aigen Li, B. T. Draine
We present a quantitative model for the infrared emission from dust in the diffuse interstellar medium. The model consists of a mixture of amorphous silicate grains and carbonaceou…