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Context: Dust reprocesses about half of the stellar radiation in galaxies. The thermal re-emission by dust of absorbed energy is considered driven merely by young stars and, consequently, often applied to trace the star formation rate in…

We introduce a model for the explicit evolution of interstellar dust in a cosmological galaxy formation simulation. We post-process a simulation from the Cosmic Reionization on Computers project (CROC, Gnedin 2014), integrating an ordinary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Clarke J. Esmerian , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We investigate the effects of stellar evolution and dust on measurements of stellar velocity dispersion in mergers of disk galaxies. $N$-body simulations and radiative transfer analysis software are used to obtain mass-weighted and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-11 Nathaniel R. Stickley , Gabriela Canalizo

Aims. We present the implementation of the treatment of particle ejection and dust nucleation in the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) code phantom. These developments represent the first step toward a more complete modeling of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 L. Siess , W. Homan , S. Toupin , D. J. Price

A fraction of the early-type galaxy population hosts a prominent dust lane. Methods to quantify the dust content of these systems based on optical imaging data usually yield dust masses which are an order of magnitude lower than dust masses…

We investigate the time evolution of dust properties, molecular hydrogen (H_2) contents, and star formation histories in galaxies by using our original chemodynamical simulations. The simulations include the formation of dust in the stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Kenji Bekki

We present the Empirical Dust Attenuation (EDA) framework -- a flexible prescription for assigning realistic dust attenuation to simulated galaxies based on their physical properties. We use the EDA to forward model synthetic observations…

In this paper, we use hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations of Milky Way-type haloes to explore using dust as an observational tracer to discriminate between cold and warm dark matter (WDM) universes. Comparing a cold and 3.5 keV WDM particle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-28 Adam Ussing , Robert Mostoghiu Paun , Darren Croton , Celine Boehm , Alan Duffy , Chris Power

(Abridged) We present radiation transfer simulations of a massive (8 Msun) protostar forming from a massive (Mc=60 Msun) protostellar core, extending the model developed by Zhang & Tan (2011). The two principal improvements are (1)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Yichen Zhang , Jonathan C. Tan , Christopher F. McKee

In order to understand how the chemical and isotopic compositions of dust grains in a gaseous turbulent protoplanetary disk are altered during their journey in the disk, it is important to determine their individual trajectories. We study…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Sebastien Charnoz , Laure Fouchet , Jérôme Aleon , Manuel Moreira

We present dust-attenuated and dust emission fluxes for sufficiently resolved galaxies in the EAGLE suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, calculated with the SKIRT radiative transfer code. The post-processing procedure includes…

The spectral energy distribution (SED) of galaxies provides fundamental information on the related physical processes. However, the SED is significantly affected by dust in its interstellar medium. Dust is mainly produced by asymptotic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 Kazuki Y. Nishida , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Takuma Nagata , Ryosuke S. Asano

We develop a method of analyzing radio frequency spectral line observations to derive data on the temperature, density, velocity, and molecular abundance of the emitting gas. The method incorporates a radiative transfer code with a new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric Keto , George B. Rybicki , Edwin A. Bergin , Rene Plume

A code computing consistently the evolution of stars, gas and dust, as well as the energy they radiate, is required to derive reliably the history of galaxies by fitting synthetic SEDs to multiwavelength observations. The new code…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-27 Michel Fioc , Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange

A new Monte-Carlo radiative-transfer code, Sunrise, is used in conjunction with hydrodynamic simulations of major galaxy mergers to calculate the effects of dust in such systems. The simulations are in good agreement with observations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Patrik Jonsson , T. J. Cox , Joel R. Primack , Rachel S. Somerville

New dynamical models for dust-driven winds of oxygen-rich AGB stars are presented which include frequency-dependent Monte Carlo radiative transfer by means of a sparse opacity distribution technique and a time-dependent treatment of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter Woitke

We have developed a simplified method of treating the radiative acceleration of dusty flows. This method retains the sharp impulse at the dust destruction radius that is a feature of frequency dependent radiative transfer, whilst placing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. G. Edgar , C. J. Clarke

Stars form within dense cores composed of both gas and dust within molecular clouds. However, despite the crucial role that dust plays in the star formation process, its dynamics is frequently overlooked, with the common assumption being a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-21 Nadine H. Soliman , Philip F. Hopkins , Michael Y. Grudić

The interstellar dust content in galaxies can be traced in extinction at optical wavelengths, or in emission in the far-infrared. Several studies have found that radiative transfer models that successfully explain the optical extinction in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 W. Saftly , M. Baes , G. De Geyter , P. Camps , F. Renaud , J. Guedes , I. De Looze

We present FORECAST, a new flexible and adaptable software package that performs forward modeling of the output of any cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to create a wide range of realistic synthetic astronomical images. With…