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We propose an updated dust evolution model that focuses on the grain size distribution in a galaxy. We treat the galaxy as a one-zone object and include five main processes (stellar dust production, dust destruction in supernova shocks,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Hiroyuki Hirashita

We model the effect of grain size distribution in a galaxy on the evolution of CO and H$_2$ abundances. The formation and dissociation of CO and H$_2$ in typical dense clouds are modelled in a manner consistent with the grain size…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-10 Hiroyuki Hirashita

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

Dust is essential to the evolution of galaxies and drives the formation of planetary systems. The challenge of inferring the origin of different presolar dust grains from meteoritic samples motivates forward modelling to understand the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-01 Kira Lund , Anders Johansen , Oscar Agertz

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 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,…

Full calculations of the evolution of grain size distribution in galaxies are in general computationally heavy. In this paper, we propose a simple model of dust enrichment in a galaxy with a simplified treatment of grain size distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Hiroyuki Hirashita

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

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 reconsider the origin and processing of dust in elliptical galaxies. We theoretically formulate the evolution of grain size distribution, taking into account dust supply from asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and dust destruction by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-14 Hiroyuki Hirashita , Takaya Nozawa , Alexa Villaume , Sundar Srinivasan

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 show that the growth rate of dust grains in cold molecular clouds is enhanced by the high degree of compressibility of a turbulent, dilute gas. By means of high resolution (10243) numerical simulations, we confirm the theory that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-18 Xiang-Yu Li , Lars Mattsson

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

The dust properties in high-redshift galaxies provide clues to the origin of dust in the Universe. Although dust has been detected in galaxies at redshift $z>7$, it is difficult to constrain the dominant dust sources only from the total…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 Hsin-Min Liu , Hiroyuki Hirashita

Planet formation in protoplanetary discs requires dust grains to coagulate from the sub-micron sizes that are found in the interstellar medium into much larger objects. For the first time, we study the growth of dust grains during the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-01 Matthew R. Bate

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

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

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

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…

Grain growth by the accretion of metals in interstellar clouds (called `grain growth') could be one of the dominant processes that determine the dust content in galaxies. The importance of grain size distribution for the grain growth is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Hiroyuki Hirashita , Tzu-Ming Kuo