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We have worked out evolutionary synthesis models of the broad-band spectral energy distribution of elliptical galaxies over the whole frequency range from UV to far--IR. Internal extinction and far--IR re--emission by interstellar dust have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 P. Mazzei , G. De Zotti , C. Xu

Despite its small mass fraction typically observed in the interstellar medium, dust plays a significant role as a key component of galaxies, affecting a wide range of properties. This review focuses specifically on how dust grains influence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Francesco Calura

In a low-metallicity gas, rapid cooling by dust thermal emission is considered to induce cloud fragmentation and play a vital role in the formation of low-mass stars (<~ 1 M_sun) in metal-poor environments. We investigate how the growth of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-02-13 Gen Chiaki , Takaya Nozawa , Naoki Yoshida

Simulating the dust content of galaxies and their surrounding gas is challenging due to the wide range of physical processes affecting the dust evolution. Here we present cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of a cluster of galaxies,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-09 Mark Vogelsberger , Ryan McKinnon , Stephanie O'Neil , Federico Marinacci , Paul Torrey , Rahul Kannan

The properties of interstellar grains, such as grain size distribution and grain porosity, are affected by interstellar processing, in particular, coagulation and shattering, which take place in the dense and diffuse interstellar medium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-13 Hiroyuki Hirashita , Vladimir B. Il'in , Laurent Pagani , Charlène Lefèvre

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…

We introduce a model for the explicit evolution of interstellar dust in a cosmological galaxy formation simulation. We post-process a simulation from the Cosmic Reionization on Computers project (CROC, Gnedin 2014), integrating an ordinary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Clarke J. Esmerian , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

The presence of metals in hot cluster gas and in Ly-alpha absorbers, as well as the mass-metallicity relation of observed galaxies, suggest that galaxies lose a significant fraction of their metals to the intergalactic medium (IGM).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anthony Aguirre , Lars Hernquist , Neal Katz , Jeffrey Gardner , David Weinberg

Interstellar dust is a major foreground contaminant for many observations and a key component in the chemistry of the interstellar medium, yet its properties remain highly uncertain. Using low-resolution spectra, we accurately measure the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-23 Xiangyu Zhang , Gregory Green

The timescales on which astronomical dust grows remain poorly understood, with important consequences for our understanding of processes like circumstellar disk evolution and planet formation.A number of post-asymptotic giant branch stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 P. Scicluna , F. Kemper , A. Trejo , J. P. Marshall , S. Ertel , M. Hillen

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

To study the dust evolution in the cosmological structure formation history, we perform a smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulation with a dust enrichment model in a cosmological volume. We adopt the dust evolution model that represents the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Kuan-Chou Hou , Shohei Aoyama , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Kentaro Nagamine , Ikkoh Shimizu

In many models of dusty objects in space the grains are assumed to be composite or fluffy. However, the computation of the optical properties of such particles is still a very difficult problem. We analyze how the increase of grain porosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. V. Voshchinnikov , V. B. Il'in , Th. Henning , D. N. Dubkova

We examine the flow from asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars when along a small solid angle the optical depth due to dust is very large. We consider two types of flows. In the first, small cool spots are formed on the surface of slowly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Noam Soker

Here we investigate the origin of the dust mass (Mdust) observed in the Milky Way (MW) and of dust scaling relations found in a sample of local galaxies from the DGS and KINGFISH surveys. To this aim, we model dust production from…

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

We investigate the impacts of the evolution of dust mass and grain size distribution within a Milky Way-like (MW-like) galaxy simulation on global attenuation curves, focusing on the optical-UV slope and the 2175 $AA$ bump. We discuss the…

Dust grains in neutral gas behave as aerodynamic particles, so they can develop large density fluctuations independent of gas density fluctuations. Specifically, gas turbulence can drive order-of-magnitude 'resonant' fluctuations in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-15 Philip F. Hopkins

The abundance evolution of interstellar dust species originating from stellar sources and from condensation in molecular clouds in the local interstellar medium of the Milky Way is studied and the input of dust material to the Solar System…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Svitlana Zhukovska , Hans-Peter Gail , Mario Trieloff

Dust constitutes only about one percent of the mass of circumstellar disks, yet it is of crucial importance for the modeling of planet formation, disk chemistry, radiative transfer and observations. The initial growth of dust from…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 T. Birnstiel