Diffuse Galactic Emission from Spinning Dust Grains
Astrophysics
2011-02-07 v2
Abstract
Spinning interstellar dust grains produce detectable rotational emission in the 10-100 GHz frequency range. We calculate the emission spectrum, and show that this emission can account for the ``anomalous'' Galactic background component which correlates with 100um thermal emission from dust. Implications for cosmic background studies are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9710152,
title = {Diffuse Galactic Emission from Spinning Dust Grains},
author = {B. T. Draine and A. Lazarian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9710152},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
13 pages, 3 eps figures, uses aaspp4.sty . Accepted by Ap.J.Letters 97/12/09. Corrected typos and added 1 reference