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Item Planck polarimetry: modeling the galactic magnetic field.(2010-06) Wahl, Theodore ParkI created a model of polarized emission from dust grains aligned with the galactic magnetic field for comparison with Planck observations. I modeled the magnetic field in the galactic disk as a field with a cylindrical constant component and an equal strength random component. I investigated how the fractional polarization down a line of sight varies with different models of a random field. I determine that different models of random fields yield different amounts of fractional polarization, especially over sightlines longer than a decorrelation length.