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A novel mechanism of the formation of compact dusty clouds in astrophysical environments is discussed. It is shown that the balance of collective forces operating in space dusty plasmas can result in the effect of dust self-confinement,…

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Understanding the molecular content of galaxies is a critical problem in star formation and galactic evolution. Here we present a new method, based on a Stromgren-type analysis, to calculate the amount of HI that surrounds a molecular cloud…

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When imaged at high-resolution, many proto-planetary discs show gaps and rings in their dust sub-mm continuum emission profile. These structures are widely considered to originate from local maxima in the gas pressure profile. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Giovanni P. Rosotti , Richard Teague , Cornelis Dullemond , Richard A. Booth , Cathie Clarke

Space missions often carry antenna instruments that are sensitive to dust impacts, however, the understanding of signal generation mechanisms remained incomplete. A signal generation model in an analytical form is presented that provides a…

Understanding the distribution and properties of molecular clouds is crucial for tracing the structure and evolution of the interstellar medium and the large-scale morphology of the Milky Way. Here we present an all-sky catalog of 3,345…

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High-resolution JWST-MIRI images now allow us to resolve in great detail the multi-scale nature of the emission in nearby star-forming galaxies, from compact star-forming regions to large-scale diffuse emission, giving new insights into…

Cosmic dust is present in many astrophysical objects, and recent observations across the electromagnetic spectrum show that the dust distribution is often strongly three-dimensional (3D). Dust grains are effective in absorbing and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Juergen Steinacker , Maarten Baes , Karl Gordon

We study the effect of the velocity distributions of the plasma particles on the equilibrium charge of dust particles which suffer collisional charging, considering different forms of both isotropic and anisotropic Kappa distributions for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Luiz Fernando Ziebell , Rudi Gaelzer

We describe a simple method for simulating the dynamics of small grains in a dusty gas, relevant to micron-sized grains in the interstellar medium and grains of centimetre size and smaller in protoplanetary discs. The method involves…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-11 Daniel J. Price , Guillaume Laibe

A theoretical model is developed to study the equilibrium electromagnetic properties of a spherically symmetric dust molecular cloud (DMC) structure on the Jeans scale. It applies a technique based on the modified Lane-Emden equation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 B. Borah , P. K. Karmakar

When considering particles produced in reactive plasmas, their basic properties, such as refractive index and grain size often need to be known. They can be constrained both ex-situ, e.g., by microscopy, and in-situ by polarimetry, i.e.,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Julia Kobus , Andreas Petersen , Franko Greiner , Sebastian Wolf

Observations of H3+ in the Galactic diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) have led to various surprising results, including the conclusion that the cosmic-ray ionization rate (zeta_2) is about 1 order of magnitude larger than previously…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Nick Indriolo , Benjamin J. McCall

Dust grains in the interstellar medium interact with photons across the electromagnetic spectrum. They are generally photon energy converters, absorbing short wavelength radiation and emitting long wavelength radiation. Sixty years ago in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Yancy L. Shirley , Jeffrey G. Mangum , Desika Narayanan , James Di Francesco

The control of the spatial distribution of micrometer-sized dust particles in capacitively coupled radio frequency discharges is relevant for research and applications. Typically, dust particles in plasmas form a layer located at the sheath…

Dust and starlight are modeled for the KINGFISH project galaxies. With data from 3.6 micron to 500 micron, models are strongly constrained. For each pixel in each galaxy we estimate (1) dust surface density; (2) q_PAH, the dust mass…

A comprehensive analytical theory for nonlinear excitations related to horizontal (longitudinal, acoustic mode) as well as vertical (transverse, optical mode) motion of charged dust grains in a dust crystal is presented. Different types of…

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The aim of this work is to construct an algorithm for visualizing a polydisperse phase of solid particles (dust) in an inhomogeneous flow of a two-phase gas-dust mixture that would allow us to see, within one plot, the degree of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 Vitaly V. Korolev , Mikhail A. Bezborodov , Ilya G. Kovalenko , Andrey M. Zankovich , Mikhail A. Eremin

In this paper, the collective dynamics of the large aspect ratio dusty plasma is studied over a wide range of discharge parameters. An inductively coupled diffused plasma, which creates an electrostatic trap to confine the negatively…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Mangilal Choudhary , S. Mukherjee , P. Bandyopadhyay