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The rapidly evolving dust and gas extinction observed towards WD 1145+017 has opened a real-time window onto the mechanisms for destruction-accretion of planetary bodies onto white dwarf stars, and has served to underline the importance of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 J. Farihi , T. von Hippel , J. E. Pringle

We argue that impact velocities between dust grains with sizes less than $\sim 0.1$ $\mu m$ in molecular cloud cores are dominated by drift arising from ambipolar diffusion. This effect is due to the size dependence of the dust coupling to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Kedron Silsbee , Alexei Ivlev , Paola Caselli , Olli Sipila , Bo Zhao

In this paper, we study the dust dynamics in the molecular outflow using an analytical magnetohydrodynamical outflow model. Specifically, we investigate the maximum size of dust grains $a_{\rm d,max}$ that can be lifted by the outflow and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-16 Hayato Uchimura , Kudoh Takahiro , Yusuke Tsukamoto

We investigate the impact of radiation pressure on spatial dust distribution inside H$_\mathrm{II}$ regions using one-dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations, which include absorption and re-emission of photons by dust. In order to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-21 Shohei Ishiki , Takashi Okamoto , Akio K. Inoue

The polarization of starlight and thermal dust emission, resulting from non-spherical grains aligned with the interstellar magnetic field (B-field), act as a powerful tool to trace the B-field morphologies and strengths in molecular clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-26 Saikhom Pravash

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

A large fraction of the protoplanetary disks observed with ALMA display multiple well-defined and nearly perfectly circular rings in the continuum, in many cases with substantial peak-to-valley contrast. The DSHARP campaign shows that…

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…

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

This article gives an overview of the constitution, physical conditions and observables of dust in the interstellar medium of nearby galaxies. We first review the macroscopic, spatial distribution of dust in these objects, and its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-10 F. Galliano , M. Galametz , A. P. Jones

The cross section of material in debris discs is thought to be dominated by the smallest grains that can still stay in bound orbits despite the repelling action of stellar radiation pressure. Thus the minimum (and typical) grain size…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Nicole Pawellek , Alexander V. Krivov

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

Polarized extinction and emission from dust in the interstellar medium (ISM) are hard to interpret, as they have a complex dependence on dust optical properties, grain alignment and magnetic field orientation. This is particularly true in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-24 Lapo Fanciullo , Vincent Guillet , François Boulanger , Anthony Jones

The presence of charged dust grains is known to have a profound impact on the physical evolution of the multiphase interstellar medium (ISM). Despite its importance, this process is still poorly explored in numerical simulations due to its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-01 Martin Glatzle , Luca Graziani , Benedetta Ciardi

Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the alignment of grains with the interstellar magnetic field, including paramagnetic dissipation, radiative torques, and supersonic gas-grain streaming. These must compete with disaligning…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joseph C. Weingartner

The degree of coupling between the gas and the magnetic field during the collapse of a core and the subsequent formation of a disk depends on the assumed dust size distribution. We study the impact of grain-grain coagulation on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-28 V. Guillet , P. Hennebelle , G. Pineau des Forêts , A. Marcowith , B. Commerçon , P. Marchand

In most debris discs, dust grain dynamics is strongly affected by stellar radiation pressure. As this mechanism is size-dependent, we expect dust grains to be spatially segregated according to their sizes. However, because of the complex…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Philippe Thebault , Quentin Kral , Jean-Charles Augereau

Comets provide unique information about the physical and chemical properties of the environment in which the Solar system was formed. Understanding how cometary dust and ice evolve under the effect of sunlight is essential for constraining…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Thiem Hoang , Ngo-Duy Tung

Species abundances in the interstellar medium (ISM) strongly depend on the chemistry occurring at the surfaces of the dust grains. To describe the complexity of the chemistry, various numerical models have been constructed. In most of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 Wasim Iqbal , Valentine Wakelam

Interstellar medium is turbulent and this induces relative motions of dust grains. We calculate relative velocities of charged grains in a partially ionized magnetized gas. We account for anisotropy of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Lazarian , Huirong Yan