Overview

In this section, we summarize the treatment for each dust process in CosmicGrain.

Here is a list of the primary research sources for the dust physics:

  • DUST CREATION
  • Todini & Ferrara 2001 — SN dust yields
  • Ferrarotti & Gail 2006 — AGB dust yields
  • Nozawa et al. 2003 — Dust condensation in SN ejecta *
  • GRAIN GROWTH (accretion)
  • Hirashita & Kuo 2011 (HK11) — Subgrid accretion timescales
  • Asano et al. 2013 — Accretion + coagulation framework *
  • THERMAL SPUTTERING
  • Draine & Salpeter 1979 — Thermal sputtering physics
  • McKinnon et al. 2017 — Sputtering timescale formula (Eq. 2)
  • Tsai & Mathews 1995 — Sputtering in hot gas *
  • SHOCK DESTRUCTION
  • McKee & Ostriker 1977 — SN energetics (10^51 erg standard)
  • Sedov 1959 — Self-similar blast wave solution
  • Jones et al. 1994, 1996 — Grain shattering threshold (~50 km/s)
  • Bocchio et al. 2014 — Grain destruction efficiencies (Table 6) *
  • DRAG COUPLING
  • McKinnon et al. 2018 — Epstein drag (eqs. 8–9) *
  • GRAIN TEMPERATURE
  • Hollenbach & McKee 1979 — Gas-grain collisional coupling
  • Draine & Lee 1984 — Modified blackbody Q_abs opacity law
  • Mathis et al. 1983 — ISRF parametrisation
  • Draine & Li 2007 — Grain opacity and composition *
  • RADIATION PRESSURE
  • Draine & Lee 1984 — Q_pr radiation pressure efficiency
  • Draine & Li 2007 — Grain opacity and composition treatment *
  • GENERAL FRAMEWORK
  • Dwek 1998 — Dust evolution in the ISM
  • McKinnon et al. 2016 — Dust in cosmological simulations