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Advances in Astronomy
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 462697, 13 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/462697
Review Article
Spinning Dust Radiation: A Review of the Theory
Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Received 29 August 2012; Accepted 8 November 2012
Academic Editor: Laurent Verstraete
Copyright © 2013 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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