Internal and external alignment of carbonaceous grains within the radiative torque paradigm

We study the internal and external alignment of carbonaceous grains, including graphite and hydrogenated amorphous carbon (HAC), in the interstellar medium (ISM) within the RAdiative Torque (RAT) paradigm. For internal alignment (IA), we find that HAC grains having nuclear paramagnetism due to hydro...

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description We study the internal and external alignment of carbonaceous grains, including graphite and hydrogenated amorphous carbon (HAC), in the interstellar medium (ISM) within the RAdiative Torque (RAT) paradigm. For internal alignment (IA), we find that HAC grains having nuclear paramagnetism due to hydrogen protons can have efficient nuclear relaxation, whereas both HAC and graphite grains can have efficient inelastic relaxation for grains aligned both at low$-J$ and high$-J$ attractors. For external alignment, HAC and graphite grains can align with the radiation direction ($k$-RAT) at low$-J$ attractors but cannot have stable alignment at high$-J$ attractors due to the suppression of radiative precession. HAC also has slow Larmor precession compared to the randomization by gas collisions and cannot be aligned with the magnetic field ($B$-RAT). Small HAC grains of $a
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