Abstract
Grains ejected from stars at velocities of ∼ 107cm s−1 and/or grains accelerated by the pressure of starlight in the intercloud medium to velocities in the range 2 × 106 –107 cm s−1 are slowed to velocities of about 2 × 105 cm s−1 in a typical interstellar cloud. The interaction of fast grains with gas atoms as they are slowed in clouds could provide (a) the dominant heat source for interstellar clouds; (b) sites for molecule formation; and (c) a mechanism of providing a pressure balance between clouds and the intercloud medium.
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Tarafdar, S.P., Wickramasinghe, N.C. (1976). Effects of Suprathermal Grains. In: Wickramasinghe, N.C., Morgan, D.J. (eds) Solid State Astrophysics. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 55. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1884-5_26
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