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For many decades, dust has been recognised as an important ingredient in galaxy formation and evolution. This paper presents a novel self-consistent implementation of dust formation by stars, destruction by supernova shocks and hot gas, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Omima Osman , Gabriella De Lucia , Fabio Fontanot , Lizhi Xie , Michaela Hirschmann

We develop a model of dust evolution in a multiphase, inhomogeneous ISM including dust growth and destruction processes. The physical conditions for grain evolution are taken from hydrodynamical simulations of giant molecular clouds in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-09 Svitlana Zhukovska , Clare Dobbs , Edward B. Jenkins , Ralf Klessen

Dust is a crucial component of the interstellar medium of galaxies. The presence of dust strongly affects the light produced by stars within a galaxy. As these photons are our main information vector to explore the stellar mass assembly and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 M. Cousin , V. Buat , G. Lagache , M. Bethermin

We present models for the evolution of the elemental abundances in the gas and dust phases of the interstellar medium (ISM) of our Galaxy by generalizing standard models for its dynamical and chemical evolution. In these models, the stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eli Dwek

Interstellar dust is a key physical ingredient of galaxies, obscuring star formation, regulating the heating and cooling of the gas, and building-up chemical complexity. In this manuscript, I give a wide review of interstellar dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-07 Frédéric Galliano

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

Scaling laws of dust, HI gas and metal mass with stellar mass, specific star formation rate and metallicity are crucial to our understanding of the buildup of galaxies through their enrichment with metals and dust. In this work, we analyse…

Micro-physical processes on interstellar dust surfaces are tightly connected to dust properties (i.e. dust composition, size and shape) and play a key role in numerous phenomena in the interstellar medium (ISM). The large disparity in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-29 T. Schirmer , A. Abergel , L. Verstraete , N. Ysard , M. Juvela , A. P. Jones , E. Habart

We investigate the evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM) in self-consistent, chemodynamical simulations of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) during their recent (z<0.3) past. An explicit modelling of dust and molecular hydrogen lifecycles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Cameron Yozin , Kenji Bekki

We present a new model to compute the effects of dust on the integrated spectral properties of galaxies, based on an idealized prescription of the main features of the interstellar medium (ISM). The model includes the ionization of HII…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Charlot , S. Michael Fall

We present models of photometric evolution of galaxies in which the effects of a dusty interstellar medium have been included with particular care. A chemical evolution code follows the star formation rate, the gas fraction and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laura Silva , Gian Luigi Granato , Alessandro Bressan , Luigi Danese

Turbulence can significantly accelerate the growth of dust grains by accretion of molecules. For dust dynamically coupled to the gas, the growth rate scales with the square of the Mach number, which means that the growth timescale can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Lars Mattsson

To understand the origin of dust in the circum-galactic medium (CGM), we develop a dust enrichment model. We describe each of the central galaxy and its CGM as a single zone, and consider the mass exchange between them through galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-06 Mau Otsuki , Hiroyuki Hirashita

While marginal in mass terms, dust grains play an outsized role in both the physics and observation of the interstellar medium (ISM). However, explicit modelling of this ISM constituent remains uncommon in large cosmological simulations. In…

Our ability to correct the observational photometry of galaxies depends upon our knowledge of the attenuation of light produced by the dust contained in the interstellar medium. We will present a model based on the statistical properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joerg Fischera

We study interstellar dust evolution in various environments by means of chemical evolution models for galaxies of different morphological types. We start from the formalism developed by Dwek (1998) to study dust evolution in the solar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-17 F. Calura , A. Pipino , F. Matteucci , -

Interstellar dust grains do not have a single well-defined origin. Stars are demonstrably dust producers, but also efficient destroyers of cosmic dust. Dust destruction in the ISM is believed to be the result of SN shocks hitting the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-24 Lars Mattsson

Interstellar dust plays decisive roles in the conversion of neutral to molecular hydrogen (H_2), the thermodynamical evolution of interstellar medium (ISM), and the modification of spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies. These…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Kenji Bekki

The past century of interstellar dust has brought us from first ignoring it to finding that it is an important component of the interstellar medium and plays an important role in the evolution of galaxies, the formation of stars and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aigen Li , J. Mayo Greenberg

We investigate the evolution of interstellar dust in the Universe by means of chemical evolution models of galaxies of different morphological types, reproducing the main observed features of present day galaxies. We adopt the most updated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-06 Lorenzo Gioannini , Francesca Matteucci , Francesco Calura