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The presence of dust in elliptical galaxies has recently been shown to be quite common. Deep optical multi-colour CCD imaging has revealed the presence of dust lanes and patches, and the technique of co-adding IRAS survey scans has led to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Paul Goudfrooij , Teije de Jong

The diffuse stellar component of galaxy clusters known as intracluster light (ICL) has been proposed as an observable tracer of the cluster's dark matter (DM) halo. Assessing its reliability as a DM tracer requires understanding how the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-02 J. Butler , G. Martin , N. A. Hatch , F. Pearce , S. Brough , Y. Dubois

This article is based on an invited talk given by V. P. Kulkarni at the 8th Cosmic Dust meeting. Dust has a profound effect on the physics and chemistry of the interstellar gas in galaxies and on the appearance of galaxies. Understanding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 Varsha P. Kulkarni , Monique C. Aller , Donald G. York , Daniel E. Welty , Giovanni Vladilo , Debopam Som

Dust offers a unique probe of the interstellar medium (ISM) across multiple size, density, and temperature scales. Dust is detected in outflows of evolved stars, star-forming molecular clouds, planet-forming disks, and even in galaxies at…

(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

The Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM) is a rarefied, hot, highly ionized, metal rich, weakly magnetized plasma. In these proceeding, after having reviewed some basic ICM properties, I discuss recent results obtained with the BeppoSAX, XMM-Newton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Silvano Molendi

We present results from an on-going programme to study the dust and ionized gas in E/S0 galaxies with dust lanes. Our data, together with results from previous studies of E/S0 galaxies, are used to demonstrate the tight relationship between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ido Finkelman , Noah Brosch , S. J. Jose G. Funes , Sudhanshu Barway , Alexei Kniazev , Petri Vaisanen

The distribution of metals and temperature in the intracluster medium (ICM) provides key insights into galaxy cluster evolution, revealing information about chemical enrichment and heating and cooling processes, respectively. To access this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-01 Yiwei Zhang , Xun Shi , Daisuke Nagai

The wavelength dependences of interstellar extinction and polarization, supplemented by observed elemental abundances and the spectrum of infrared emission from dust heated by starlight, strongly constrain dust models. One dust model that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-03-11 B. T. Draine

In this study, we explore the impact of inhomogeneities in the spatial distribution of interstellar dust on spatial scales of $\le1$ au caused by ion shadowing forces on the optical properties of diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) as well as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 Andrei B. Ostrovskii , S. Yu. Parfenov , A. I. Vasyunin , A. V. Ivlev , V. A. Sokolova

We implement a state-of-the-art treatment of the processes affecting the production and Interstellar Medium (ISM) evolution of carbonaceous and silicate dust grains within SPH simulations. We trace the dust grain size distribution by means…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Eda Gjergo , Gian Luigi Granato , Giuseppe Murante , Cinthia Ragone-Figueroa , Luca Tornatore , Stefano Borgani

To a great extent, our understanding of the life cycle of dust is based on the observational and theoretical studies of the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds, which will be the topic of this contribution. Over past years, a large volume…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-08-01 Svitlana Zhukovska , Thomas Henning

Dust is a ubiquitous component in our Galaxy. It accounts for only $1\%$ mass of the ISM but still is an essential part of the Galaxy. It affects our view of the Galaxy by obscuring the starlight at shorter wavelengths and re-emitting in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-17 Namita Uppal , Shashikiran Ganesh , Santosh Joshi , Mrinmoy Sarkar , Prachi Prajapati , Athul Dileep

An important aspect of quenching star formation is the removal of the cold interstellar medium (ISM; non-ionised gas and dust) from a galaxy. In addition, dust grains can be destroyed in a hot or turbulent medium. The adopted timescale of…

Current high resolution observations of galaxy clusters reveal a dynamical intracluster medium (ICM). The wealth of structures includes signatures of interactions between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and the ICM, such as cavities and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. Roediger , M. Brueggen , A. Simionescu , H. Boehringer , S. Heinz

Despite its small mass fraction typically observed in the interstellar medium, dust plays a significant role as a key component of galaxies, affecting a wide range of properties. This review focuses specifically on how dust grains influence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Francesco Calura

Interstellar dust is a key physical ingredient of galaxies, obscuring star formation, regulating the heating and cooling of the gas, and building-up chemical complexity. In this manuscript, I give a wide review of interstellar dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-07 Frédéric Galliano

This review describes our current understanding of interstellar extinction. This differ substantially from the ideas of the 20th century. With infrared surveys of hundreds of millions of stars over the entire sky, such as 2MASS,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-13 George Gontcharov

Dust is a key component of galaxies, but its properties during the earliest eras of structure formation remain elusive. Here we present a simple semi-analytic model of the dust distribution in galaxies at $z \gtrsim 5$. We calibrate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Roy J. Zhao , Steven R. Furlanetto

This paper reviews our current understanding of interstellar dust models, what constitutes a viable dust model, what observational constraints are essential for deriving such model, and the current viable dust models. Interstellar dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eli Dwek