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We model dust evolution in Milky Way-like galaxies by post-processing the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulations in order to predict dust-to-gas ratios and grain size distributions. We treat grain-size-dependent dust growth…

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We investigate the cosmological evolution of interstellar dust with a semi-analytical galaxy formation model ($\nu^2$GC), focusing on the evolution of grain size distribution. The model predicts the statistical properties of dust mass and…

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Extinction curves, especially those in the Milky Way (MW), the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), have provided us with a clue to the dust properties in the nearby Universe. We examine whether or not these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-22 Kuan-Chou Hou , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Michał J. Michałowski

We develop a cosmological model for the evolution of dust grains in galaxies with a distribution of sizes in order to understand the origin of the Milky Way dust extinction curve. Our model considers the formation of active dust in evolved…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-11 Qi Li , Desika Narayanan , Paul Torrey , Romeel Davé , Mark Vogelsberger

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

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

We compute the evolution of interstellar dust in a hydrodynamic simulation of an isolated disc galaxy. We newly implement the evolution of full grain size distribution by sampling 32 grid points on the axis of the grain radius. We solve it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Shohei Aoyama , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Kentaro Nagamine

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

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

We develop a model of dust evolution in a multiphase, inhomogeneous ISM including dust growth and destruction processes. The physical conditions for grain evolution are taken from hydrodynamical simulations of giant molecular clouds in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-09 Svitlana Zhukovska , Clare Dobbs , Edward B. Jenkins , Ralf Klessen

The evolution of the dust grain size distribution has been studied in recent years with great detail in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations taking into account all the channels under which dust evolves in the interstellar medium. We…

To understand the evolution of extinction curve, we calculate the dust evolution in a galaxy using smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations incorporating stellar dust production, dust destruction in supernova shocks, grain growth by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Kuan-Chou Hou , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Kentaro Nagamine , Shohei Aoyama , Ikkoh Shimizu

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…

We present cosmological zoom-in hydro-dynamical simulations for the formation of disc galaxies, implementing dust evolution and dust promoted cooling of hot gas. We couple an improved version of our previous treatment of dust evolution,…

To understand how the evolution of grain size distribution in galaxies affects observed dust properties, we apply a post-processing dust evolution model to galaxy merger trees from the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulation.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 Chiung-Yin Chang , Yu-Hsiu Huang , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Andrew P. Cooper

We propose an updated dust evolution model that focuses on the grain size distribution in a galaxy. We treat the galaxy as a one-zone object and include five main processes (stellar dust production, dust destruction in supernova shocks,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Hiroyuki Hirashita

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

The radiative properties of interstellar dust are affected not only by the grain size distribution but also by the grain porosity. We develop a model for the evolution of size-dependent grain porosity and grain size distribution over the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Hiroyuki Hirashita , Vladimir B. Il'in

Interstellar dust is an important component of the galactic ecosystem, playing a key role in multiple galaxy formation processes. We present a novel numerical framework for the dynamics and size evolution of dust grains implemented in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 Ryan McKinnon , Mark Vogelsberger , Paul Torrey , Federico Marinacci , Rahul Kannan
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