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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 812, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/812/2/135
关键词
cosmic rays; dust, extinction; ISM: clouds
资金
- OCEVU Labex [ANR-11-LABX-0060]
- Investissements d'Avenir French government program [ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02]
- CNRS-INAF PICS project Pulsar wind nebulae, supernova remnants and the origin of cosmic rays
- European Research Council (ERC) [320620]
The local cosmic-ray (CR) spectra are calculated for typical characteristic regions of a cold, dense molecular cloud to investigate two mechanisms of dust charging that have, thus far, been neglected: the collection of suprathermal CR electrons and protons by grains and photoelectric emission from grains due to the UV radiation generated by CRs. These two mechanisms add to the conventional charging by ambient plasma, produced in the cloud by CRs. We show that the CR-induced photoemission can dramatically modify the charge distribution function for submicron grains. We demonstrate the importance of the obtained results for dust coagulation: while the charging by ambient plasma alone leads to a strong Coulomb repulsion between grains and inhibits their further coagulation, the combination with the photoemission provides optimum conditions for the growth of large dust aggregates in a certain region of the cloud, corresponding to the densities n(H-2) between similar to 10(4) and similar to 10(6) cm(-3). The charging effect of CRs is of a generic nature, and is therefore expected to operate not only in dense molecular clouds but also in the upper layers and the outer parts of protoplanetary disks.
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