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Alignment of Dust Grains by Magnetic Relaxation: A Comparison Between Results Obtained by Two Different Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

P. Cugnon
P. Cugnon*
Affiliation:
Observatoire Royal de Belgique, Belgium

Abstract

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This paper is devoted to a comparison between results obtained by Purcell and Spitzer (1971) using a Monte-Carlo method and by the author (1971) using a Fokker-Planck equation. It is shown that there is a good agreement between the results within the dispersion expected from the Monte-Carlo method.

Type
Part IV Interstellar Polarization
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 52: Interstellar Dust and Related Topics , 1973 , pp. 187 - 189
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1973 

References

Cugnon, P.: 1971, Astron. Astrophys. 12, 398.Google Scholar
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