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Understanding the evolution of dust and molecular hydrogen (H$_2$) is a critical aspect of galaxy evolution, as they affect star formation and the spectral energy distribution of galaxies. We use the $N$-body/smoothed-particle-hydrodynamics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 Leonard E. C. Romano , Kentaro Nagamine , Hiroyuki Hirashita

AGB stars are, together with supernovae, the main contributors of stellar dust to the interstellar medium (ISM). Dust grains formed by AGB stars are thought to be large. However, as dust nucleation and growth within their outflows are still…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 M. Van de Sande , C. Walsh , T. Danilovich

We implement a state-of-the-art treatment of the processes affecting the production and Interstellar Medium (ISM) evolution of carbonaceous and silicate dust grains within SPH simulations. We trace the dust grain size distribution by means…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Eda Gjergo , Gian Luigi Granato , Giuseppe Murante , Cinthia Ragone-Figueroa , Luca Tornatore , Stefano Borgani

To understand how the evolution of grain size distribution in galaxies affects observed dust properties, we apply a post-processing dust evolution model to galaxy merger trees from the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulation.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 Chiung-Yin Chang , Yu-Hsiu Huang , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Andrew P. Cooper

We present cosmological zoom-in hydro-dynamical simulations for the formation of disc galaxies, implementing dust evolution and dust promoted cooling of hot gas. We couple an improved version of our previous treatment of dust evolution,…

Shockwaves driven by supernovae both destroy dust and reprocess the surviving grains, greatly affecting the resulting dust properties of the interstellar medium (ISM). While these processes have been extensively studied theoretically,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 F. D. Priestley , H. Chawner , M. J. Barlow , I. De Looze , H. L. Gomez , M. Matsuura

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

We re-evaluate the roles of different dust sources in dust production as a function of metallicity in late-type dwarf galaxies, with the goal of understanding the relation between dust content and metallicity. The dust content of late-type…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Svitlana Zhukovska

Interstellar dust is a significant component of matter in the galaxies. The dust owns its origin and reprocessing in a wide range of astrophysical environments. In order to understand the origin and evolution of the distinct types of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-24 Anuj Gupta , Sandeep Sahijpal

Interstellar dust is an important component of the galactic ecosystem, playing a key role in multiple galaxy formation processes. We present a novel numerical framework for the dynamics and size evolution of dust grains implemented in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 Ryan McKinnon , Mark Vogelsberger , Paul Torrey , Federico Marinacci , Rahul Kannan

We present the first large-scale, high-resolution simulations of dusty, star formation feedback-driven galactic outflows. Using the Cholla hydrodynamics code, we investigate dust sputtering in these environments for grains ranging in size…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-09 Helena M. Richie , Evan E. Schneider

Recent observations have revealed that dust is widespread and abundant in galaxies up to $z\,{\backsimeq}\,8$, significantly influencing their appearance and spectral properties. In the early Universe, dust is thought to form primarily in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-16 He Zhao , Bingqiu Chen , Jun Li

Dust grains can be efficiently accelerated and shattered in warm ionized medium (WIM) because of the turbulent motion. This effect is enhanced in starburst galaxies, where gas is ionized and turbulence is sustained by massive stars.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Hiroyuki Hirashita , Takaya Nozawa , Huirong Yan , Takashi Kozasa

We perform smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of an isolated galaxy with a new treatment for dust formation and destruction. To this aim, we treat dust and metal production self-consistently with star formation and supernova…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-19 Shohei Aoyama , Kuan-Chou Hou , Ikkoh Shimizu , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Keita Todoroki , Jun-Hwan Choi , Kentaro Nagamine

A model of key processes influencing the evolution of a hydrocarbon grain of an arbitrary size under astrophysical conditions corresponding to ionized hydrogen regions (HII regions) and supernova remnants is presented. The considered…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 M. S. Murga , S. A. Khoperskov , D. S. Wiebe

The wavelength dependences of interstellar extinction and polarization, supplemented by observed elemental abundances and the spectrum of infrared emission from dust heated by starlight, strongly constrain dust models. One dust model that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-03-11 B. T. Draine

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…

Dust grains play a fundamental role in galaxies, influencing both their evolution and observability. As a result, incorporating dust physics into galaxy evolution simulations is essential. This is a challenging task due to the finite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-16 Massimiliano Parente

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

Methods. We have modelled a sample of ~800 nearby galaxies, spanning a wide range of metallicity, gas fraction, specific star formation rate and Hubble stage. We have derived the dust properties of each object from its spectral energy…