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We revisit the evolution model of grain size distribution in a galaxy for the ultimate purpose of implementing it in hydrodynamical simulations. We simplify the previous model in such a way that some model-dependent assumptions are replaced…

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) appear to be ubiquitous in terrestrial atmosphere as well as in the interstellar medium (ISM). In the astrophysical context presence of PAHs is interpreted by the observations of mid-IR emission bands…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Rashmi Singh , Shantanu Rastogi

A combined mid-IR spectrum of five colliding-wind, massive, dust-producing Population I Wolf-Rayet (WR) binaries shows a wealth of absorption and emission details coming from the circumstellar dust envelopes, as well as from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 S. V. Marchenko , A. F. J. Moffat

We examine the relation between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission at 8 microns and far-infrared emission from hot dust grains at 24 microns and from large dust grains at 160 and 250 microns in the nearby spiral galaxies NGC…

Aims: We explore the relation between charge state of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and extinction curve morphology. Methods: We fit extinction curves with a dust model including core-mantle spherical particles of mixed chemical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Cecchi-Pestellini , G. Malloci , G. Mulas , C. Joblin , D. A. Williams

We present a large sample of 2.5-38 $\mu m$ galaxy spectra drawn from a cross-archival comparison in the AKARI-Spitzer Extragalactic Spectral Survey (ASESS), and investigate a subset of 113 star-forming galaxies with prominent polycyclic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-23 Thomas S. -Y. Lai , J. D. T. Smith , Shunsuke Baba , Henrik W. W. Spoon , Masatoshi Imanishi

We present a comprehensive mid-infrared spectroscopic survey of 124 Herbig Ae/Be stars using newly processed Spitzer/IRS spectra from the newly released CASSISjuice database. Based on prominent dust and molecular signatures (polycyclic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-18 R. Arun , Blesson Mathew , B. Shridharan , K. Ujjwal , Akhil Krishna R , G. Maheswar , Sreeja S. Kartha

Polarized emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) potentially provides a new way to test basic physics of the alignment of ultrasmall grains. In this paper, we present a new model of polarized PAH emission that takes into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-12 Thiem Hoang

Recognized as important interstellar constituents, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been intensively studied in astrochemistry and their spectroscopy, thermodynamics, dynamics, and fragmentations are now amply documented. There…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Georges Trinquier , Aude Simon , Mathias Rapacioli , Florent Xavier Gadéa

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

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…

The PHANGS survey uses ALMA, HST, VLT, and JWST to obtain an unprecedented high-resolution view of nearby galaxies, covering millions of spatially independent regions. The high dimensionality of such a diverse multi-wavelength dataset makes…

Ratios of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) vibrational bands are a promising tool for measuring the properties of the PAH population and their effect on star formation. The photometric bands of the MIRI and NIRCam instruments on JWST…

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous complex molecules in the interstellar medium and are used as an indirect indicator of star-formation. On the other hand the ultraviolet (UV) emission from the young massive stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-09 K. Ujjwal , Sreeja S Kartha , Akhil Krishna R , Blesson Mathew , Smitha Subramanian , Sudheesh T P , Robin Thomas

For star-forming galaxies, we investigate a global relation between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission luminosity at 3.3 um, L_PAH3.3, and infrared (8-1000 um) luminosity, L_IR, to understand how the PAH 3.3 um feature relates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Rika Yamada , Shinki Oyabu , Hidehiro Kaneda , Mitsuyoshi Yamagishi , Daisuke Ishihara , Ji Hoon Kim , Myungshin Im

The physical and chemical conditions in photodissociation regions (PDRs) are largely determined by the influence of far ultraviolet radiation. Far-UV photons can efficiently dissociate molecular hydrogen, a process that must be balanced at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-08 P. Castellanos , A. Candian , H. Andrews , A. G. G. M. Tielens

We explore indirect methods to detect Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in gas-rich, absorption-selected galaxies at high redshift. We look at the optical VLT/X-shooter observations of an intervening, extremely strong damped…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Gargi Shaw , A. Ranjan

Dust grains play a crucial role in the modeling of protostellar formation, particularly through their opacity and interaction with the magnetic field. The destruction of dust grains in numerical simulations is currently modeled primarily by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-05 Antonin Borderies , Benoît Commerçon , Bernard Bourdon

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are responsible for strong mid-IR emission features near star-forming regions. It is well known that low-metallicity environments exhibit weaker PAH emission, but it is not clear how the metallicity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-09 Congcong Zhang , Joelene Hales , Els Peeters , Jan Cami , Ameek Sidhu , Junfeng Zhen

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules, as revealed by the distinctive set of emission bands at 3.3, 6.2, 7.7, 8.6, 11.3 and 12.7 $\mu$m characteristic of their vibrational modes, are abundant and widespread throughout the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 Aigen Li