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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 445, Issue 1, Pages 301-308Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stu1720
Keywords
polarization; ISM: clouds; dust, extinction; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: ISM
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- RFBR [13-02-00138a]
- Saint Petersburg State University grant [6.38.669.2013]
- Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) grant [102-2119-M-001-006-MY3]
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We apply the time evolution of grain size distributions through accretion and coagulation found in our previous work to the modelling of the wavelength dependence of interstellar linear polarization. We focus in particular on the parameters of the Serkowski curve K and lambda(max) characterizing the width and maximum wavelength of this curve, respectively. We use aligned silicate and non-aligned carbonaceous spheroidal particles with different aspect ratios a/b. The imperfect alignment of grains with sizes larger than a cut-off size r(V,cut) is considered. We find that the evolutionary effects on the polarization curve are negligible in the original model with commonly used material parameters (hydrogen number density n(H) = 10(3) cm(-3), gas temperature T-gas=10 K and sticking probability for accretion S-acc, = 0.3). Therefore, we apply the tuned model, where the coagulation threshold of silicate is removed. In this model, lambda(max) displaces to longer wavelengths and the polarization curve becomes wider (K reduces) on time-scales (30-50)(n(H) /10(3)cm(-3))(-1) Myr. The tuned models at T less than or similar to 30(n(H) /10(3)cm(-3))(-1) Myr and different values of the parameters r(V,cut) can also explain the observed trend between K and lambda(max). It is significant that the evolutionary effect appears in the perpendicular direction to the effect of r(V,cut) on the K-lambda(max) diagram. Very narrow polarization curves can be reproduced if we change the type of particles (prolate/oblate) and/or vary a/b.
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