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A model of key processes influencing the evolution of a hydrocarbon grain of an arbitrary size under astrophysical conditions corresponding to ionized hydrogen regions (HII regions) and supernova remnants is presented. The considered…

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Core-accretion planet formation begins in protoplanetary disks with the growth of small, ISM dust grains into larger particles. The progress of grain growth, which can be quantified using 10 micron silicate spectroscopy, has broad…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Andrew J. I. Skemer , Laird M. Close , Thomas P. Greene , Philip M. Hinz , William F. Hoffmann , Jared R. Males

The abundance of dust within galaxies directly influences their evolution. Contemporary models attempt to match this abundance by simulating the processes of dust creation, growth, and destruction. While these models are accurate, they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Trevor Butrum , Benne Holwerda , Romeel Dave , Kyle Cook , Clayton Robertson , Jochen Liske

This paper investigates the impact of dust size distribution on magnetic resistivity. In particular, we focus on its impact when the maximum dust size significantly increases from sub-micron. The first half of the paper describes our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Satoshi Okuzumi

Proto-planetary disc surveys conducted with ALMA are measuring disc radii in multiple star forming regions. The disc radius is a fundamental quantity to diagnose whether discs undergo viscous spreading, discriminating between viscosity or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Giovanni P. Rosotti , Marco Tazzari , Richard A. Booth , Leonardo Testi , Giuseppe Lodato , Cathie Clarke

The radial drift and diffusion of dust particles in protoplanetary disks affect both the opacity and temperature of such disks as well as the location and timing of planetesimal formation. In this paper, we present results of numerical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Noemi Schaffer , Chao-Chin Yang , Anders Johansen

Variations in the grain size distribution are to be expected in the interstellar medium (ISM) due to grain growth and destruction. In this work, we present a dust collision model to be implemented inside a magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) code…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 L. Beitia-Antero , A. I. Gómez de Castro

Variations in the observed dust emission and extinction indicate a systematic evolution of grain properties in the transition from the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) to denser molecular clouds. The differences in the dust spectral energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Melanie Köhler , Nathalie Ysard , Anthony P. Jones

In protoplanetary discs, the coagulation of dust grains into large aggregates still remains poorly understood. Grain porosity appears to be a promising solution to allow the grains to survive and form planetesimals. Furthermore, dust…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-06 Stéphane Michoulier , Jean-François Gonzalez

Based on a one-zone evolution model of grain size distribution in a galaxy, we calculate the evolution of infrared spectral energy distribution (SED), considering silicate, carbonaceous dust, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Hiroyuki Hirashita , Weining Deng , Maria S. Murga

We propose a new evolutionary process of protoplanetary disks "co-evolution of dust grains and protoplanetary disks", revealed by dust-gas two-fluid non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics simulations considering the growth of dust and associated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Yusuke Tsukamoto , Masahiro N. Machida , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We investigate the gas-grain relative drift velocity distributions of charged astrophysical dust grains in MHD turbulence. We do this using a range of MHD-PIC simulations spanning different plasma-$\beta$, sonic/Alfv\'en Mach number, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 Eric R. Moseley , Romain Teyssier

We investigate the behaviour of dust in protoplanetary disks under the action of gas drag using our 3D, two-fluid (gas+dust) SPH code. We present the evolution of the dust spatial distribution in global simulations of planetless disks as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jean-François Gonzalez , Laure Fouchet , Sarah T. Maddison , Guillaume Laibe

The excess emission seen in spectral energy distributions (SEDs) is commonly used to infer the properties of the emitting circumstellar dust in protoplanetary and debris discs. Most notably, dust size distributions and details of the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Torsten Löhne

We present the first results of a detailed modeling of chemical and photometric evolution of galaxies including the effects of a dusty interstellar medium. A chemical evolution code follows the SF rate, the gas fraction and the metallicity,…

Debris discs are often modelled assuming compact dust grains, but more and more evidence for the presence of porous grains is found. We aim at quantifying the systematic errors introduced when modelling debris discs composed of porous dust…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-21 Robert Brunngräber , Sebastian Wolf , Florian Kirchschlager , Steve Ertel

We investigate the dynamics of dust grains with various sizes in protoplanetary disk winds driven by magnetorotational turbulence, by simulating the time evolution of the dust grain distribution in the vertical direction. Small dust grains,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Tomoya Miyake , Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA) have revealed many dust rings in protoplanetary disks, often interpreted as dust traps at gas pressure bumps. Previous studies…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 Linhan Yang , Ya-Ping Li , Ruobing Dong , Kiyoaki Doi , Hauyu Baobab Liu , Pinghui Huang

In this paper we consider the implications of the distributions of dust and metals in the disc of M31. We derive mean radial dust distributions using a dust map created from Herschel images of M31 sampling the entire far-infrared (FIR)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-16 L. Mattsson , H. L. Gomez , A. C. Andersen , M. W. L. Smith , I. De Looze , M. Baes , S. Viaene , G. Gentile , J. Fritz , L. Spinoglio

Protoplanetary disks are dispersed by viscous evolution and photoevaporation in a few million years; in the interim small, sub-micron sized dust grains must grow and form planets. The time-varying abundance of small grains in an evolving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Uma Gorti , David Hollenbach , Cornelis Dullemond