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To investigate the evolution of dust in a cosmological volume, we perform hydrodynamic simulations, in which the enrichment of metals and dust is treated self-consistently with star formation and stellar feedback. We consider dust evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-24 Shohei Aoyama , Kuan-Chou Hou , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Kentaro Nagamine , Ikkoh Shimizu

In order to theoretically understand dust properties in the circum-galactic medium (CGM), we construct a dust evolution model that incorporates the evolution of grain size distribution. We treat each of the galaxy and the CGM as a one-zone…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-02 Hiroyuki Hirashita

We study the dust evolution in galaxies by implementing a detailed dust prescription in the SAGE semi-analytical model for galaxy formation. The new model, called Dusty SAGE, follows the condensation of dust in the ejecta of type II…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-18 Dian P. Triani , Manodeep Sinha , Darren J. Croton , Camilla Pacifici , Eli Dwek

The origin of cosmic dust is a fundamental issue in planetary science. This paper revisits the origin of dust in galaxies, in particular, in the Milky Way, by using a chemical evolution model of a galaxy composed of stars, interstellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-15 Akio K. Inoue

We present models for the evolution of the elemental abundances in the gas and dust phases of the interstellar medium (ISM) of our Galaxy by generalizing standard models for its dynamical and chemical evolution. In these models, the stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eli Dwek

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 significant component of matter in the galaxies. The dust owns its origin and reprocessing in a wide range of astrophysical environments. In order to understand the origin and evolution of the distinct types of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-24 Anuj Gupta , Sandeep Sahijpal

Winds driven by stellar feedback are an essential part of the galactic ecosystem and are the main mechanism through which low-mass galaxies regulate their star formation. These winds are generally observed to be multi-phase with detections…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Rahul Kannan , Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Laura V. Sales , Paul Torrey , Lars Hernquist

The dust abundance of the interstellar medium plays an important role in galaxy physics, the chemical evolution of matter and the absorption and re-emission of stellar light. The last years have seen a surge in observational and theoretical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-06 Gergö Popping , Céline Péroux

Dust plays an important role in the evolution of a galaxy, since it is one of the main ingredients for efficient star formation. Dust grains are also a sink/source of metals when they are created/destroyed, and, therefore, a self-consistent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-08 I. Millán-Irigoyen , M. Mollá , Y. Ascasibar

Turbulence can significantly accelerate the growth of dust grains by accretion of molecules. For dust dynamically coupled to the gas, the growth rate scales with the square of the Mach number, which means that the growth timescale can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Lars Mattsson

Dust grains play a fundamental role in galaxies, influencing both their evolution and observability. As a result, incorporating dust physics into galaxy evolution simulations is essential. This is a challenging task due to the finite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-16 Massimiliano Parente

To study the dust evolution in the cosmological structure formation history, we perform a smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulation with a dust enrichment model in a cosmological volume. We adopt the dust evolution model that represents the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Kuan-Chou Hou , Shohei Aoyama , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Kentaro Nagamine , Ikkoh Shimizu

The evolution of the cosmic dust content and the cycle between metals and dust in the interstellar medium (ISM) play a fundamental role in galaxy evolution. The chemical enrichment of the Universe can be traced through the evolution of the…

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

The abundance evolution of interstellar dust species originating from stellar sources and from condensation in molecular clouds in the local interstellar medium of the Milky Way is studied and the input of dust material to the Solar System…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Svitlana Zhukovska , Hans-Peter Gail , Mario Trieloff

We study the dust content of galaxies from $z=0$ to $z=9$ in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation that include new recipes to track the production and destruction of dust. We include condensation of dust in stellar ejecta, the growth of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Gergö Popping , Rachel S. Somerville , Maud Galametz

We investigate the evolution of dust content in galaxies from redshifts z=0 to z=9.5. Using empirically motivated prescriptions, we model galactic-scale properties -- including halo mass, stellar mass, star formation rate, gas mass, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 Nia Imara , Abraham Loeb , Benjamin D. Johnson , Charlie Conroy , Peter Behroozi

Understanding the evolution of dust in galaxies is crucial because it affects the dynamics and cooling of gas, star formation, and chemical evolution. Recent work on dust removal in galaxies indicates timescales of gigayears, with old…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-30 Aleksandra Leśniewska , Jens Hjorth , Christa Gall

We investigate the evolution of interstellar dust in the Universe by means of chemical evolution models of galaxies of different morphological types, reproducing the main observed features of present day galaxies. We adopt the most updated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-06 Lorenzo Gioannini , Francesca Matteucci , Francesco Calura
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