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We review the properties of dust in protoplanetary disks around optically visible pre-main sequence stars obtained with a variety of observational techniques, from measurements of scattered light at visual and infrared wavelengths to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Natta , L. Testi , N. Calvet , Th. Henning , R. Waters , D. Wilner

The ESA meteoroid model predicts impacts of meteoroids in the mass range between $10^{-18}$ to $10^0$ g on spacecraft surfaces. It covers heliocentric distances from 0.3 to 20 AU. Measurements of the dust detector on board the highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Landgraf , R. Jehn , N. Altobelli , V. Dikarev , E. Grün

Recent interferometric surveys of nearby main-sequence stars show a faint but significant near-infrared excess in roughly two dozen systems, i.$\,$e. around $10\,\%$ to $30\,\%$ of stars surveyed. This excess is attributed to dust located…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Florian Kirchschlager , Sebastian Wolf , Alexander V. Krivov , Harald Mutschke , Robert Brunngräber

In this analysis we illustrate how the relatively new emission mechanism known as spinning dust can be used to characterize dust grains in the interstellar medium. We demonstrate this by using spinning dust emission observations to…

An infrared excess over the stellar photospheric emission of main-sequence stars has been found in interferometric surveys, commonly attributed to the presence of hot exozodiacal dust (HEZD). While submicrometer-sized grains in close…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-18 T. A. Stuber , F. Kirchschlager , T. D. Pearce , S. Ertel , A. V. Krivov , S. Wolf

Observations of the cosmic microwave background have revealed a component of 10-60 GHz emission from the Galaxy which correlates with 100-140um emission from interstellar dust but has an intensity much greater than expected for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. T. Draine , A. Lazarian

The recent results obtained by the modern telescopes and spacecrafts allow us for the first time to compare directly the mass, spatial density and size distribution of the dust grains in the regions of their production, processing and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 George Gontcharov

Dust offers a unique probe of the interstellar medium (ISM) across multiple size, density, and temperature scales. Dust is detected in outflows of evolved stars, star-forming molecular clouds, planet-forming disks, and even in galaxies at…

This article is based on an invited talk given by V. P. Kulkarni at the 8th Cosmic Dust meeting. Dust has a profound effect on the physics and chemistry of the interstellar gas in galaxies and on the appearance of galaxies. Understanding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 Varsha P. Kulkarni , Monique C. Aller , Donald G. York , Daniel E. Welty , Giovanni Vladilo , Debopam Som

A broad array of interstellar absorption features that appear in the ultraviolet spectra of bright sources allows us to measure the abundances and ionization states of many important heavy elements that exist as free atoms in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward B. Jenkins

Intermediate-mass stars end their lives by ejecting the bulk of their envelope via a slow dense wind back into the interstellar medium, to form the next generation of stars and planets. Stellar pulsations are thought to elevate gas to an…

Using the data obtained with the Spitzer Space telescope as part of the Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE) legacy survey, we have studied the variations of the dust composition and abundance across the Large Magellanic…

We present numerical simulations of the hydrodynamical interactions that produce circumstellar shells. These simulations include several scenarios, such as wind-wind interaction and wind-ISM collisions. In our calculations we have taken…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Allard Jan van Marle , Zakaria Meliani , Rony Keppens , Leen Decin

The Oort Cloud remains one of the most poorly explored regions of the Solar System. We propose that its properties can be constrained by studying a population of dust grains produced in collisions of comets in the outer Solar System. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Alex R. Howe , Roman R. Rafikov

Dust grains are an important component of the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies. We present the first direct measurement of the residence times of interstellar dust in the different ISM phases, and of the transition rates between these…

Dust is a key component of the Universe, especially regarding galaxies evolution, playing an essential role for both the physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium. In this paper, we give a brief review of interstellar dust. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-19 M. Compiegne

We develop a 3D dynamical model of dust outflows from galactic discs. The outflows are initiated by multiple SN explosions in a magnetized interstellar medium (ISM) with a gravitationally stratified density distribution. Dust grains are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-28 S. A. Khoperskov , Yu. A. Shchekinov

I review some of the evidences for dust in the Local Bubble and in galactic halos and show that a general mechanism based on radiation pressure is capable of evacuating dust grains from regions dominated by massive star energy input and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrea Ferrara

To discriminate between different dust formation processes is a key issue in order to understand its properties. We analysed six submillimeter galaxies at redshifts 4<z<5 and nine quasars at 5<z<6.4. We estimated their dust masses from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-27 Michał J. Michałowski , Eric J. Murphy , Jens Hjorth , Darach Watson , Christa Gall , James S. Dunlop

An important aspect of quenching star formation is the removal of the cold interstellar medium (ISM; non-ionised gas and dust) from a galaxy. In addition, dust grains can be destroyed in a hot or turbulent medium. The adopted timescale of…