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Photoelectron Emission from Interstellar Grains∗

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

William D. Watson
William D. Watson*
Affiliation:
Center for Radiophysics and Space Research and Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., U.S.A.
*
**Present address: Departments of Physics and Astronomy University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. 61801, U.S.A.

Abstract

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Photoelectric emission from interstellar dust grains due to ultraviolet starlight is reinvestigated. Ejection of photoelectrons can make a substantial contribution to the heating of standard interstellar clouds. Both positive and negative grain charges are shown to be possible.

Type
Part VI Physical Processes, Theory and Experiment
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 52: Interstellar Dust and Related Topics , 1973 , pp. 335 - 339
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1973 

Footnotes

∗

Supported in part by U.S. National Science Foundation Grants GP-26068 and GP-27355.

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