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Effects of shock processing on Serkowski polarization curves
Authors:Wilfred H Sorrell
Institution:(1) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, 63121 St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Abstract:This paper presents a semi-empirical model for variations of interstellar polarization curves based upon the Serkowski-Wilking law for optical and near-infrared wavebands. The model assumes that nonspherical dust grains producing interstellar polarization are core-mantle particles shaped like oblate spheroids. The physical picture is one in which large (a 0 ap 0.1µm) particles in the dense cloud phase are deposited into the diffuse cloud medium and thereafter undergo mantle processing by galactic shocks and UV starlight. It is shown that polarization curves vary their widths mainly as a consequence of the nonthermal sputtering of mantles by low-velocity shocks. Mantle sputtering by shocks in low density clouds tends to broaden the curves, whereas mantle sputtering by shocks in denser clouds produce narrow curves. Hence, shock processing of grain mantles can explain the observed correlation between the width of polarization curves and the dust grain environment.
Keywords:Interstellar Matter (ISM:)  dust  polarization
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