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Dust is the usual minor component of the interstellar medium. Its dynamic role in the contraction of the diffuse gas into molecular clouds is commonly assumed to be negligible because of the small mass fraction, $f \simeq 0.01$. However, as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-11 V. V. Zhuravlev

One of the more surprising astrophysical discoveries of the last decade has been the presence of enormous quantities of dust at megaparsec distances from galaxies, which has important implications for galaxy evolution, the circumgalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Jacqueline E. McCleary , Eric M. Huff , James W. Bartlett , Brandon S. Hensley

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 origin of dust in galaxy halos or in the circum-galactic medium (CGM) is still a mystery. We investigate if the radiation pressure in high-redshift ($z\sim 10$) galaxies can efficiently transport dust to halos. To clarify the first dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-22 Hiroyuki Hirashita , Akio K. Inoue

Observations of the rest-frame far-infrared (far-IR) emission of galaxies suggest a mild increase of dust temperature $T_{\rm dust}$ with redshift, although constraining $T_{\rm dust}$ in high-redshift systems remains challenging due to…

The dust component of the interstellar medium (ISM) has been extensively studied in the past decades. Late-type stars have been assumed as the main source of dust to the ISM, but recent observations show that supernova remnants may play a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Falceta-Goncalves , D.

The expanding ejecta of supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to form dust in dense clumps of gas. Before the dust can be expelled into the interstellar medium and contribute to the interstellar dust budget, it has to survive the reverse…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-02 Florian Kirchschlager , Nina Sartorio , Ilse De Looze , M. J. Barlow , Franziska Schmidt , Felix Priestley

Context. While supernova remnants (SNRs) are observed to produce up to 1 M$_\odot$ of dust, the amount of dust destroyed by the forward shock (FS) is poorly constrained, raising the question whether they are net dust producers or…

Resolving the environments of massive stars is crucial for understanding their formation mechanisms and their impact on galaxy evolution. An important open question is whether massive stars found in diffuse regions outside spiral arms…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-12 Christina Willecke Lindberg , Claire Murray , Julianne Dalcanton , Josh Peek , Karl Gordon

Numerical simulations suggest that the first galaxies are formed in protogalactic halos with virial temperatures >= 10^4 K. It is likely that such halos are polluted with trace amounts of metals produced by the first generation of stars.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. A. Latif , D. R. G. Schleicher , M. Spaans

Most galaxy evolution simulations as well as a variety of observational methods assume a linear scaling between the (galaxy-averaged) dust-to-gas ratio D and metallicity Z of the interstellar medium (ISM). Indeed, nearby galaxies with solar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Robert Feldmann

We study interstellar dust evolution in various environments by means of chemical evolution models for galaxies of different morphological types. We start from the formalism developed by Dwek (1998) to study dust evolution in the solar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-17 F. Calura , A. Pipino , F. Matteucci , -

Models of chemical evolution of galaxies including the dust are nowadays required to decipher the high-z universe. In a series of three papers we have tackled the problem and set a modern chemical evolution model. In the first paper (Piovan…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-07-25 L. Piovan , C. Chiosi , E. Merlin , T. Grassi , R. Tantalo , U. Buonomo , L. P. Cassarà

The growing interest in the high-z universe, where strongly obscured objects are present, has determined an effort to improve the simulations of dust formation and evolution in galaxies. Three main basic ingredients enter the problem…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-07-25 L. Piovan , C. Chiosi , E. Merlin , T. Grassi , R. Tantalo , U. Buonomo , L. P. Cassarà

(abridged) The dust content of the universe is primarily explored via its interaction with stellar photons, producing interstellar extinction. However, owing to the physical extension of the observing beam, observations may detect scattered…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 P. Scicluna , R. Siebenmorgen

We introduce a dust model for cosmological simulations implemented in the moving-mesh code AREPO and present a suite of cosmological hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations to study dust formation within galactic haloes. Our model accounts for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-02 Ryan McKinnon , Paul Torrey , Mark Vogelsberger

We explore the onset of star formation in the early Universe, exploiting the observations of high-redshift Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) and Lyman alpha emitters (LAEs), in the framework of the galaxy formation scenario elaborated by Granato…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 J. Mao , A. Lapi , G. L. Granato , G. de Zotti , L. Danese

We develop a 3D dynamical model of dust outflows from galactic discs. The outflows are initiated by multiple SN explosions in a magnetized interstellar medium (ISM) with a gravitationally stratified density distribution. Dust grains are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-28 S. A. Khoperskov , Yu. A. Shchekinov

This paper investigates the origin of the observed large variety in dust-to-gas ratio among blue compact dwarf galaxies (BCDs). By applying our chemical evolution model, we find that the dust destruction can largely suppress the dust-to-gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Hirashita , Y. Y. Tajiri , H. Kamaya