The astrodust+ PAH model: A unified description of the extinction, emission, and polarization from dust in the diffuse interstellar medium

BS Hensley, BT Draine - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new model of interstellar dust in which large grains are a single composite
material," astrodust," and nanoparticle-sized grains come in distinct varieties including …

Dust, CO, and [C i]: cross-calibration of molecular gas mass tracers in metal-rich galaxies across cosmic time

L Dunne, SJ Maddox, PP Papadopoulos… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present a self-consistent cross-calibration of the three main molecular gas mass tracers
in galaxies, namely the 12CO (1–0),[C i](3 P 1–3 P 0) lines, and the submm dust continuum …

Structure and evolution of interstellar carbonaceous dust. Insights from the laboratory

VJ Herrero, M Jiménez-Redondo, RJ Peláez… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A large fraction of interstellar carbon is locked up in solid grains. The nature, origin and
evolution of these grains have been investigated for decades. A combination of …

[图书][B] Dust in the galactic environment

DCB Whittet - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Dust is a ubiquitous feature of the cosmos, impinging directly or indirectly on most fields of
modern astronomy and astrophysics. Dust in the Galactic Environment, Second Edition …

Excitation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission: dependence on size distribution, ionization, and starlight spectrum and intensity

BT Draine, A Li, BS Hensley, LK Hunt… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Using physical models, we study the sensitivity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)
emission spectra to the character of the illuminating starlight, to the PAH size distribution …

CCAT-prime collaboration: science goals and forecasts with Prime-Cam on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope

M Aravena, JE Austermann, K Basu… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a detailed overview of the science goals and predictions for the Prime-Cam
direct-detection camera–spectrometer being constructed by the CCAT-prime collaboration …

The Dielectric Function of “Astrodust” and Predictions for Polarization in the 3.4 and 10 μm Features

BT Draine, BS Hensley - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The dielectric function of interstellar dust material is modeled using observations of
extinction and polarization in the infrared, together with estimates for the mass of interstellar …

Physical modelling of dust polarization from magnetically enhanced radiative torque alignment in protostellar cores with polaris

NC Giang, T Hoang, JG Kim… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Magnetic fields (B) are an important factor controlling the star-formation process. The
leading method to observe B orientation is to use polarized thermal emission from aligned …

Discovery of a Collimated Jet from the Low-luminosity Protostar IRAS 16253− 2429 in a Quiescent Accretion Phase with the JWST

M Narang, P Manoj, H Tyagi, DM Watson… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Investigating Protostellar Accretion (IPA) is a JWST Cycle 1 GO program that uses
NIRSpec integral field units and MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrograph to obtain 2.9–28 μm …

A far ultraviolet spectroscopic explorer survey of interstellar molecular hydrogen in the galactic disk

JM Shull, CW Danforth, KL Anderson - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We report results from a Far Ultraviolet Spectrographic Explorer (FUSE) survey of interstellar
molecular hydrogen (H 2) in the Galactic disk toward 139 O-type and early B-type stars at …