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The Efficiency of Grain Alignment in Dense Interstellar Clouds: a Reassessment of Constraints from Near‐Infrared Polarization

D. C. B. Whittet, J. H. Hough, A. Lazarian, Thiem Hoang

The Astrophysical Journal · 2008 · 167 citations · 67 references

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Original article can be found at: http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/apj Copyright American Astronomical Society. DOI: 10.1086/525040 [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]

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