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Volume 689, September 2024
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Article Number | A79 | |
Number of page(s) | 17 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202449454 | |
Published online | 05 September 2024 |
Observational signatures of the dust size evolution in isolated galaxy simulations
1
Sterrenkundig Observatorium Department of Physics and Astronomy Universiteit Gent,
Krijgslaan 281 S9,
9000
Gent,
Belgium
e-mail: kosei.matsumoto@ugent.be
2
Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo,
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku,
Tokyo
113-0033,
Japan
3
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,
3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Chuo-ku,
Sagamihara, Kanagawa
252-5210,
Japan
4
Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica,
Astronomy-Mathematics Building, No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road,
Taipei
10617,
Taiwan
5
Theoretical Astrophysics, Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University,
1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka,
Osaka
560-0043,
Japan
6
Kavli IPMU (WPI), The University of Tokyo,
5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa,
Chiba
277-8583,
Japan
7
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
4505 S. Maryland Pkwy,
Las Vegas,
NV
89154-4002,
USA
8
Dept. Física Teórica y del Cosmos,
Universidad de Granada,
Spain
9
Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,
Scheinerstr. 1,
81679
München,
Germany
10
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik,
Giessenbachstr. 1,
85741
Garching,
Germany
11
Excellence Cluster ORIGINS,
Boltzmannstr. 2,
85748
Garching,
Germany
12
Instituto Universitario Carlos I de Física Teórica y Computacional, Universidad de Granada,
18071
Granada,
Spain
13
STAR Institute, Université de Liège, Quartier Agora,
Allée du six Aout 19c,
4000
Liege,
Belgium
14
Physics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Be’er-Sheva
84105,
Israel
15
Theoretical Joint Research Project, Forefront Research Center, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University,
Toyonaka, Osaka
560-0043,
Japan
Received:
2
February
2024
Accepted:
4
July
2024
Aims. We aim to provide observational signatures of the dust size evolution in the interstellar medium. In particular, we explore indicators of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) mass fraction (qPAH), defined as the mass fraction of PAHs relative to the total dust grains. In addition, we validate our dust evolution model by comparing the observational signatures from our simulations to observations.
Methods. We used the hydrodynamic simulation code, GADGET4-OSAKA to model the dust properties of Milky Way-like and NGC 628-like galaxies representing star-forming galaxies. This code incorporates the evolution of grain size distributions driven by dust production and interstellar processing. Furthermore, we performed post-processing dust radiative transfer calculations with SKIRT based on the hydrodynamic simulations to predict the observational properties of the simulations.
Results. We find that the intensity ratio between 8 and 24 μm (Iν(8 μm)/Iν(24 μm)) is correlated with qPAH and can be used as an indicator of the PAH mass fraction. However, this ratio is influenced by the local radiation field. We suggest the 8 μm-to-total infrared intensity ratio (νIν(8 μm)/ITIR) as another indicator of the PAH mass fraction, since it is tightly correlated with the PAH mass fraction. Furthermore, we explored the spatially resolved evolutionary properties of the PAH mass fraction in the simulated Milky Way-like galaxy using νIν(8 μm)/ITIR. We find that the spatially resolved PAH mass fraction increases with metallicity at Z ≲ 0.2 Z⊙ due to the interplay between accretion and shattering, whereas it decreases at Z ≳ 0.2 Z⊙ because of coagulation. Also, coagulation decreases the PAH mass fraction in regions with a high hydrogen surface density. Finally, we compared the above indicators in the NGC 628-like simulation with those observed in NGC 628 by Herschel, Spitzer, and JWST. Consequently, we find that our simulation underestimates the PAH mass fraction throughout the entire galaxy by a factor of ~8 on average. This could be due to the efficient loss of PAHs by coagulation in our model, suggesting that our treatment of PAHs in dense regions needs to be improved.
Key words: radiative transfer / dust, extinction / evolution / galaxies: evolution / galaxies: ISM / infrared: galaxies
© The Authors 2024
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