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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 696, Issue 1, Pages 1-11Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/696/1/1
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dust, extinction; infrared: ISM; radiation mechanisms: thermal
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- NSF [AST-0406883]
- Princeton University and NSF [AST-0707932]
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Polarized far-infrared (FIR) and submillimeter emission is calculated for models of nonspherical dust grains that are constrained to reproduce the observed wavelength-dependent extinction and polarization of starlight. For emission from regions where the magnetic field is perpendicular to the line of sight, the FIR emission is expected to have substantial linear polarization at wavelengths lambda greater than or similar to 100 mu m, but the degree of linear polarization, and its variation with wavelength, is model dependent. Models in which the starlight polarization is produced by both amorphous silicate and graphite grains have linear polarizations between 6% and 10% at lambda > 100 mu m, but for some models in which only silicate grains are spheroidal, the linear polarization increases from about 3% at 100 mu m to about 15% at 1 mm. We briefly discuss the implications of these results for the removal of the polarized dust emission from maps of the cosmic microwave background, as well as the possibility of discriminating among interstellar dust models based on observations of FIR and submillimeter linear polarization.
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