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An excess flux of soft X-rays in the galactic disk could result in the alignment of interstellar grains which is required to explain the observations of interstellar polarization.
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WICKRAMASINGHE, N. Galactic Soft X-rays and the Alignment of Interstellar Grains. Nature 228, 540–542 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228540a0
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