1 5 Ju l 2 00 5 Dipolar radiation from spinning dust grains coupled to an electromagnetic wave
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چکیده
In this letter we investigate how the complex rotation and quivering motion of an elongated polarized dust grain in the presence of a monochro-matic electromagnetic wave can originate dipolar emission with two distinct spectral components. We present a model for the emission of radiation by elongated polarized dust grains under the influence of both an external electromagnetic wave and a constant background magnetic field. The dust, exhibiting ro-tational motion at the external electromagnetic field frequency ω0 as well as quivering motion at frequency Ω0, proportional to the em field amplitude , will radiate with frequencies that will depend on the external field wavelength and amplitude. The radiated spectra exibits a frequency around ω0, and sidebands at ω0 ± Ω0 and ω0 ± 2Ω0. Since the amplitude and the frequency of the background electromagnetic field are independent parameters, this model establishes a correlation between different spectral components of galactic dipolar emission, which may help to explain the correlation between a component of the Galactic microwave emission and the 100µm thermal emission from interstellar dust, that has been recently measured.
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