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We investigate the equilibrium charge distribution of dust grains in the interstellar medium (ISM). Our treatment accounts for collisional charging by electrons and ions, photoelectric charging due to a background interstellar radiation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Juan C. Ibáñez-Mejía , Stefanie Walch , Alexei V. Ivlev , Seamus Clarke , Paola Caselli , Prabesh R. Joshi

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

Dust plays a fundamental role during protostellar collapse, disk and planet formation. Recent observations suggest that efficient dust growth may begin early, in the protostellar envelopes, potentially even before the formation of the disk.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Maxime Lombart , Ugo Lebreuilly , Anaëlle Maury

It has recently been shown that turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) can significantly accelerate the growth of dust grains by accretion of molecules, but the turbulent gas-density distribution also plays a crucial role in shaping…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-09 Lars Mattsson

We present the first implementation of an evolving dust grain size distribution (GSD) within a semi-analytic cosmological model (SAM) of galaxy evolution. This flexible model self-consistently accounts for stellar dust production,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-09 Massimiliano Parente , Desika Narayanan , Paul Torrey

We introduce a model for dust evolution in the RAMSES code for simulations of galaxies with a resolved multiphase interstellar medium. Dust is modelled as a fluid transported with the gas component, and is decomposed into two sizes, 5 nm…

Understanding the evolution of dust and molecular hydrogen (H$_2$) is a critical aspect of galaxy evolution, as they affect star formation and the spectral energy distribution of galaxies. We use the $N$-body/smoothed-particle-hydrodynamics…

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

We study the motion of dust grains into the Intergalactic Medium (IGM) around redshift z=3, to test the hypothesis that grains can efficiently pollute the gas with metals through sputtering. We use the results available in the literature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Simone Bianchi , Andrea Ferrara

The radiative properties of interstellar dust are affected not only by the grain size distribution but also by the grain porosity. We develop a model for the evolution of size-dependent grain porosity and grain size distribution over the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Hiroyuki Hirashita , Vladimir B. Il'in

While marginal in mass terms, dust grains play an outsized role in both the physics and observation of the interstellar medium (ISM). However, explicit modelling of this ISM constituent remains uncommon in large cosmological simulations. In…

Dust is formed out of stellar material and is constantly affected by different mechanisms occurring in the ISM. Dust grains behave differently under these mechanisms depending on their sizes, and therefore the dust grain size distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-08 M. Relano , U. Lisenfeld , K. C. Hou , I. De Looze , J. M. Vilchez , R. C. Kennicutt

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

The aim of this study is to examine dust dynamics on a large scale and investigate the coupling of dust with gas fluid in the star formation process. We propose a method for calculating the dust trajectory in a gravitationally collapsing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-17 Shunta Koga , Yoshihiro Kawasaki , Masahiro N. Machida

Studying absorption and scattering of X-ray radiation by interstellar dust grains allows us to access the physical and chemical properties of cosmic grains even in the densest regions of the Galaxy. We aim at characterising the dust…

Dust plays a key role in the evolution of the ISM and its correct modelling in numerical simulations is therefore fundamental. We present a new and self-consistent model that treats grain thermal coupling with the gas, radiation balance,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 T. Grassi , S. Bovino , T. Haugboelle , D. R. G. Schleicher

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

We observed the L1506 filament, which is located in the Taurus molecular complex, with the Herschel PACS and SPIRE instruments. Our aim is to prove the variation in grain properties along the entire length of the filament. In particular, we…

We consider dust drift under the influence of stellar radiation pressure during the pressure-driven expansion of an HII region using the chemo-dynamical model MARION. Dust size distribution is represented by four dust types: conventional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 V. V. Akimkin , M. S. Kirsanova , Ya. N. Pavlyuchenkov , D. S. Wiebe

Dust grains grow their sizes in the interstellar clouds (especially in molecular clouds) by accretion and coagulation. Here we model and test these processes by examining the consistency with the observed variation of the extinction curves…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Hiroyuki Hirashita , Nikolai V. Voshchinnikov

We study the extinction properties of the composite dust grains, consisting of host silicate spheroids and graphite as inclusions, using discrete dipole approximation (DDA). We calculate the extinction cross sections of the composite grains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Nisha Katyal , Ranjan Gupta , D B Vaidya