On the acceleration of interstellar grains |
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| Authors: | D A Mendis N C Wickramasinghe |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Applied Physics and Information Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA;(2) Department of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, University College, Cardiff, Wales, UK |
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| Abstract: | Dust grains of radiir
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 3×10–6 cm, injected into the intercloud medium at speeds in the range 107–108 cm s–1, may be stochastically accelerated to speeds  0.1c due to scattering by irregularities in the galactic magnetic field. |
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