English
Related papers

Related papers: A nearby galaxy perspective on interstellar dust p…

200 papers

Orbital evolution of an interplanetary dust particle under action of an interstellar gas flow is investigated. Secular time derivatives of the particle orbital elements, for arbitrary orbit orientation, are presented. An important result…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-01 P. Pastor , J. Klacka , L. Komar

[ABRIDGED] We derive the dust properties for 753 local galaxies and examine how these relate to some of their physical properties. We model their global dust-SEDs, treated statistically as an ensemble within a hierarchical Bayesian dust-SED…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-23 Sophia Lianou , Pauline Barmby , Aleksandr Mosenkov , Matthew Lehnert , Oskar Karczewski

Our current understanding of interstellar dust is summarized at an introductory level. Submicron-sized interstellar dust grains absorb and scatter light, and reradiate the absorbed energy in the infrared. The grain population spans a range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. T. Draine

Interstellar dust grains efficiently absorb and scatter UV and optical radiation in galaxies, and therefore can significantly affect the apparent structure of spiral galaxies. We discuss the effect of dust attenuation on the observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Maarten Baes , Dimitri Gadotti , Joris Verstappen , Ilse De Looze , Jacopo Fritz , Edgardo Vidal Perez , Marko Stalevski

We analyse the joint distribution of dust attenuation and projected axis ratios, together with galaxy size and surface brightness profile information, to infer lessons on the dust content and star/dust geometry within star-forming galaxies…

Ice is ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. We model the formation of the main constituents of interstellar ices, including H2O, CO2 , CO, and CH3 OH. We strive to understand what physical or chemical parameters influence the final…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 A. Clément , A. Taillard , V. Wakelam , P. Gratier , J. -C. Loison , E. Dartois , F. Dulieu , J. A. Noble , M. Chabot

Interstellar dust is a major foreground contaminant for many observations and a key component in the chemistry of the interstellar medium, yet its properties remain highly uncertain. Using low-resolution spectra, we accurately measure the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-23 Xiangyu Zhang , Gregory Green

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 develop a dust efflux model of radiation pressure acting on dust grains which successfully reproduces the relation between stellar mass, dust opacity and star formation rate observed in local star-forming galaxies. The dust content of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 H. Jabran Zahid , Paul Torrey , Rolf Kudritzki , Lisa Kewley , Romeel Dave , Margaret Geller

Observations of the interstellar medium are key to deciphering the physical processes regulating star formation in galaxies. However, observational uncertainties and detection limits can bias the interpretation unless carefully modeled.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-14 Robert Feldmann

The X-ray regime is a largely underused resource for constraining interstellar dust grain models and improving our understanding of the physical processes that dictate how grains evolve over their lifetimes. This is mostly due to current…

Since the epoch of cosmic star formation peak at $z \sim 2$, most of it is obscured in high mass galaxies, while in low mass galaxies the radiation escapes unobstructed. During the reionization epoch, the presence of evolved, dust obscured…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-21 J. H. Barbosa-Santos , Gastão B. Lima Neto , Amancio C. S. Friaça

Dust is essential to the evolution of galaxies and drives the formation of planetary systems. The challenge of inferring the origin of different presolar dust grains from meteoritic samples motivates forward modelling to understand the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-01 Kira Lund , Anders Johansen , Oscar Agertz

This article reviews three related topics: the extragalactic background l ight and its sources, evolution models for the dust absorption and emission in galaxies, and empirical constraints on these transfer pr ocesses in nearby starburst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Michael Fall

We examine the dust-to-gas ratio as a function of metallicity for dwarf galaxies [dwarf irregular galaxies (dIrrs) and blue compact dwarf galaxies (BCDGs)]. Using a one-zone model and adopting the instantaneous recycling approximation, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Hirashita

We have used the Spitzer Space Telescope to study the dust properties of a sample of star-forming dwarf galaxies. The differences in the mid-infrared spectral energy distributions for these galaxies which, in general, are low metallicity…

Dust grains in the interstellar medium interact with photons across the electromagnetic spectrum. They are generally photon energy converters, absorbing short wavelength radiation and emitting long wavelength radiation. Sixty years ago in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Yancy L. Shirley , Jeffrey G. Mangum , Desika Narayanan , James Di Francesco

Interstellar dust permeates our Galaxy and plays an important role in many physical processes in the diffuse and dense regions of the interstellar medium. High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy, coupled with modelling based on laboratory dust…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-28 I. Psaradaki , E. Costantini , M. Mehdipour , D. Rogantini , C. P. de Vries , F. de Groot , H. Mutschke , S. Trasobares , L. B. F. M. Waters , S. T. Zeegers

The chemical and physical properties of interstellar dust in the densest regions of the Galaxy are still not well understood. X-rays provide a powerful probe since they can penetrate gas and dust over a wide range of column densities (up to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 D. Rogantini , E. Costantini , S. T. Zeegers , C. P. de Vries , W. Bras , F. de Groot , H. Mutschke , L. B. F. M. Waters

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