Interstellar Dust
Bruce T. Draine, Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
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Some data which may be of use:
- "Astrodust" dielectric functions and scattering and absorption cross sections for spheroids
(see Draine & Hensley 2021a, ApJ 910:47).
Dielectric functions are provided for wavelengths from 1 A to 5 cm (12.4 keV to 2.6e-5 eV)
for selected axial ratios. Cross sections are provided for selected axial ratios and selected iizes (volume-equivalent radii from 3.16 A to 5.01um)
- PAH Emission spectra: PAH emission for heating by a wide range of radiation fields (from a 3 Myr-old starburst to the old stallar population of the M31 bulge. Spectra are provided for inndividula PAH sizes, and for selected size distributions.
See Draine, Li, Hensley, Hunt, Sandstrom, & Smith 2021, ApJ 917:3.
- Infrared Emission from the silicate-graphite-PAH model for interstellar dust (Draine & Li 2007)
- Synthetic infrared emission spectra (1cm > lambda > 1 micron)
calculated for
silicate-graphite-PAH dust models, for various dust mixtures,
and for a wide range of starlight intensities.
The starlight is assumed to have the spectrum estimated by
Mathis, Mezger & Panagia (1983).
- Dust models include size distributions that reproduce
- the average Milky Way extinction curve with R_V=3.1
- LMC 2 extinction curve
- SMC Bar extinction curve
- Spectra convolved with IRAS, COBE-DIRBE,
Spitzer (IRAC, MIPS, IRS Peak-Up),
Akari (IRC, FIS),, and Herschel (PACS, SPIRE)
photometric bands.
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Synthetic Extinction Curves
- Extinction, Absorption, and Albedo as a function of wavelength for
a mixture of carbonaceous (PAH and graphitic)
and silicate grains with R_V = 3.1 extinction law
[Weingartner & Draine 2001, Astrophys. J., 548, 296-309
(pdf)
;
Li & Draine 2001, Astrophys. J., 554, 778-802
(pdf);
Draine & Li 2007, Astrophys. J., 657, 000-000
(astro-ph/0608003)
]
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Optical Properties of Interstellar Dust Grains
- Tabulated dielectric
functions for "astronomical silicate", graphite, and SiC
- tabulated
scattering and absorption cross sections for spherical grains of
- astronomical silicate, .001 - 10 micron radii
- graphite, .001 - 10 micron radii
- alpha-SiC, .001 - 10 micron radii
- neutral-PAH-carbonaceous grains, .000355 - .01 micron "radii" (21 - 470,000 C atoms)
- ionized-PAH-carbonaceous grains, .000355 - .01 micron "radii" (21 - 470,000 C atoms)
- tabulated Planck-averaged absorption efficiencies for spherical grains of
- astronomical silicate, .001 < a < 10 micron
- graphite, .001 < a < 10 micron
- alpha-SiC, .001 < a < 10 micron
for 0.001 - 10 micron radii, and
10 - 50000K radiation color temperatures.
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Microwave emission from interstellar dust grains due to
- rotational emission from spinning
ultrasmall grains
- magnetic dipole emission from magnetic grain
materials.
Recent Publications on Interstellar Dust