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Diffuse Galactic Emission from Spinning Dust Grains

B. T. Draine, A. Lazarian

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9710152

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.

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