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astro-ph1999★ 91 cited
Nuclear Spin Relaxation within Interstellar Grains
A. Lazarian, B. T. Draine
We identify a new mechanism of internal dissipation of rotational kinetic energy in spinning dust grains, arising from the reorientation of nuclear angular momentum, e.g., spins of…
astro-ph1999★ 62 cited
Thermal Flipping and Thermal Trapping -- New Elements in Dust Grain Dynamics
A. Lazarian, B. Draine
Since the classical work by Purcell (1979) it has been generally accepted that most interstellar grains rotate suprathermally. Suprathermally rotating grains would be nearly perfec…