The relationship between grain shape and interstellar
polarization
N. V. Voshchinnikov* and I. S. Yakovlev
- Astronomy Department and Sobolev Astronomical Institute, St. Petersburg University, Universitetskii prosp., 28, St. Petersburg, 198504 Russia.
We analyze the effects of grain shape and orientation on the parameters of the interstellar linear-polarization curve. The consideration is performed for partially aligned prolate and oblate spheroidal particles with aspect ratios a/b varying from 1.1 to 10.
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