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In dense molecular clouds collisions between dust grains alter the ISM-dust size distribution. We study this process by inserting the results from detailed numerical simulations of two colliding dust aggregates into a coagulation model that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. W. Ormel , D. Paszun , C. Dominik , A. G. G. M. Tielens

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

We investigate shattering and coagulation of dust grains in turbulent interstellar medium (ISM). The typical velocity of dust grain as a function of grain size has been calculated for various ISM phases based on a theory of grain dynamics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hiroyuki Hirashita , Huirong Yan

Context: Dust grains undergo significant growth in star-forming environments, especially in dense regions prone to gravitational collapse. Although dust is generally assumed to represent $1 \%$ of the gas mass, dust density variations are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 V. Vallucci-Goy , P. Hennebelle , U. Lebreuilly , G. Verrier

Supernova ejecta and stellar winds are believed to produce interstellar dust grains with relatively large sizes. Smaller grains can be produced via the shattering of large grains that have been stochastically accelerated. To understand this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Eric R. Moseley , Romain Teyssier , B. T. Draine

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 compute the evolution of the grain size distribution (GSD) in a suite of numerical simulations of an isolated Milky-Way-like galaxy using the $N$-body/smoothed-particle-hydrodynamics code {\sc Gadget-4}. The full GSD is sampled on a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 Leonard E. C. Romano , Kentaro Nagamine , Hiroyuki Hirashita

Employing the Maximum Entropy Method algorithm, we fit interstellar extinction measurements which span the wavelength range 0.125-3 micron. We present a uniform set of MEM model fits, all using the same grain materials, optical constants…

The dust size distribution in molecular clouds can be strongly affected by ice-mantle formation and (subsequent) grain coagulation. Following previous work where the dust size distribution has been calculated from a state-of-the art…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 C. W. Ormel , M. Min , A. G. G. M. Tielens , C. Dominik , D. Paszun

We determine the time evolution of the dust particle size distribution during the collapse of a cloud core, accounting for both dust coagulation and dust fragmentation, to investigate the influence of dust growth on non-ideal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Yoshihiro Kawasaki , Shunta Koga , Masahiro N. Machida

We compute the evolution of interstellar dust in a hydrodynamic simulation of an isolated disc galaxy. We newly implement the evolution of full grain size distribution by sampling 32 grid points on the axis of the grain radius. We solve it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Shohei Aoyama , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Kentaro Nagamine

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

(abridged) We aim to predict the most important parameters for grain-grain collision outcomes for models of interstellar grain population evolution on astrophysical scales: the threshold velocity above which colliding grains shatter, the…

We introduce a new, discretized grain size evolution model, incorporated into the GIZMO code and coupled with FIRE-3 stellar feedback and ISM physics, to investigate variations in dust abundance, chemical composition, and grain sizes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-10 Caleb R. Choban , Samir Salim , Dušan Kereš , Julia Roman-Duval , Karin M. Sandstrom

We present high resolution ($1024^3$) simulations of super-/hyper-sonic isothermal hydrodynamic turbulence inside an interstellar molecular cloud (resolving scales of typically 20 -- 100 AU), including a multi-disperse population of dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 Lars Mattsson , Akshay Bhatnagar , Fred A. Gent , Beatriz Villarroel

Modern data of the extinction curve from the ultraviolet to the near infrared are revisited to study the property of dust grains in the Milky Way (MW) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We confirm that the graphite-silicate mixture of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Takaya Nozawa , Masataka Fukugita

The path to understanding star formation processes begins with the study of the formation of molecular clouds. The outskirts of these clouds are characterized by low column densities that allow the penetration of ultraviolet radiation,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 L. Beitia-Antero , A. I. Gómez de Castro , J. C. Vallejo

In this paper, the first of a series of two devoted to modelling the spectra of galaxies of different morphological type in presence of dust, we present our description of the dust both in the diffuse ISM and the molecular clouds. Our model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Piovan , R. Tantalo , C. Chiosi

We investigate the cosmological evolution of interstellar dust with a semi-analytical galaxy formation model ($\nu^2$GC), focusing on the evolution of grain size distribution. The model predicts the statistical properties of dust mass and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-13 Ryu Makiya , Hiroyuki Hirashita

We model dust evolution in Milky Way-like galaxies by post-processing the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulations in order to predict dust-to-gas ratios and grain size distributions. We treat grain-size-dependent dust growth…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-09 Yu-Hsiu Huang , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Yun-Hsin Hsu , Yen-Ting Lin , Dylan Nelson , Andrew P. Cooper
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