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For Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observed through a non-uniform interstellar medium (ISM) in its host galaxy, we investigate whether the non-uniformity can cause observable time variations in dust extinction and in gas absorption due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 X. Huang , G. Aldering , M. Biederman , B. Herger

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

Milky-Way and intergalactic dust extinction and reddening must be accounted for in measurements of distances throughout the universe. This work provides a comprehensive review of the various impacts of cosmic dust focusing specifically on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Dillon Brout , Adam Riess

We explore the extinction properties of the dust in the distant universe through the afterglows of high-redshifted GRBs based on the "Drude" model which, unlike previous studies, does not require a prior assumption of template extinction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 S. L. Liang , Aigen Li

Lada et al. (1994) have described a method for studying the distribution of dust in dark clouds using infrared imaging surveys. In particular they show that the method provides some information about the structure of the gas (dust) on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Paolo Padoan , Bernard J. T. Jones , AAke Nordlund

One of the more surprising astrophysical discoveries of the last decade has been the presence of enormous quantities of dust at megaparsec distances from galaxies, which has important implications for galaxy evolution, the circumgalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Jacqueline E. McCleary , Eric M. Huff , James W. Bartlett , Brandon S. Hensley

For many decades, dust has been recognised as an important ingredient in galaxy formation and evolution. This paper presents a novel self-consistent implementation of dust formation by stars, destruction by supernova shocks and hot gas, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Omima Osman , Gabriella De Lucia , Fabio Fontanot , Lizhi Xie , Michaela Hirschmann

We compare the performance of several dust models in reproducing the dust spectral energy distribution (SED) per unit extinction in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). We use our results to constrain the variability of the optical…

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

Supernovae (SN) explosions are thought to be an important source of dust in galaxies. At the same time strong shocks from SNe are known as an efficient mechanism of dust destruction via thermal and kinetic sputtering. A critically important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-11 Evgenii O. Vasiliev , Yuri A. Shchekinov

We quantify the consequences of intergalactic dust produced by the first Type II supernovae in the universe. The fraction of gas converted into stars is calibrated based on the observed C/H ratio in the intergalactic medium at z=3, assuming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Abraham Loeb , Zoltan Haiman

Our ability to interpret observations of galaxies and trace their stellar, gas, and dust content over cosmic time critically relies on our understanding of how the dust abundance and properties vary with environment. Here, we compute the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-16 Céline Péroux , Annalisa De Cia , J. Christopher Howk

We model the interstellar dust content of the reionization era with a suite of cosmological, fluid-dynamical simulations of galaxies with stellar masses ranging from $\sim 10^5 - 10^9 M_{\odot}$ in the first $1.2$ billion years of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-24 Clarke J. Esmerian , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

By combining the photometric, spectroscopic, and astrometric information of the stars in the sightline of SNRs, the distances to and the extinctions of 32 Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) are investigated. The stellar atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 He Zhao , Biwei Jiang , Jun Li , Bingqiu Chen , Bin Yu , Ye Wang

Interstellar dust grains play a crucial role in the evolution of the galactic interstellar medium (ISM). Despite its importance, however, dust remains poorly understood in terms of its origin, composition, and abundance throughout the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-05-11 Brian J. Williams

The presence of metals in hot cluster gas and in Ly-alpha absorbers, as well as the mass-metallicity relation of observed galaxies, suggest that galaxies lose a significant fraction of their metals to the intergalactic medium (IGM).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anthony Aguirre , Lars Hernquist , Neal Katz , Jeffrey Gardner , David Weinberg

Nearby dwarf irregular galaxies are ideal laboratories for studying the interstellar medium (ISM) at low metallicity, which is expected to be common for galaxies at very high redshift being observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Chia-Yu Hu , Amiel Sternberg , Ewine F. van Dishoeck

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

This article gives an overview of the constitution, physical conditions and observables of dust in the interstellar medium of nearby galaxies. We first review the macroscopic, spatial distribution of dust in these objects, and its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-10 F. Galliano , M. Galametz , A. P. Jones

The high cosmological precision offered by the next generation of galaxy surveys hinges on improved corrections for Galactic dust extinction. We explore the possibility of estimating both the dust extinction and large-scale structure from a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Matías Bravo , Eric Gawiser , Nelson D. Padilla , Joseph DeRose , Risa H. Wechsler , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration