Dust Extinction in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium

ASIAA Colloquium talk given 1-2 Nov 2022 remotely

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1. Dust Extinction in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium Karl D. Gordon Astronomer STScI, Baltimore, MD ASIAA Colloquium 1 Nov 2022 kgordon@stsci.edu @karllark2000 karllark@github “Have Dust – Will Study” Slides on speakerdeck
2. Summary • Extinction measurements are fundamental to understanding dust • Spectroscopic Extinction from FUV to MIR in Milky Way – Overall quite smooth – Few broad features including some new ones – Intriguing correlation, comforting non-correlations – One R(V) extinction relationship for all wavelengths • Beyond Milky Way – Mostly like the the Milky Way, but not all • Future w/ HST and JWST – More galaxies, more environments, larger samples
3. Extinction • Critical clues to dust grain abundance, size, composition, and shape • Clues in the continuum and features • Straightforward measurement • Focus on spectroscopic measurements • Biased by my views, not comprehensive
4. Not Covered • Dust scattering (e.g., albedo, scattering phase function) • Dust emission • Atomic composition of dust (e.g., depletions) • Dust Polarization • Dust grain models • All important, but not the focus of this talk
5. Extinction (not Attenuation) • Extinction – Absorption and scattering out of line-of-sight – Specific to a point source dust – Proportional to dust grain properties • Attenuation – scattering into the line-of-sight – Varying extinction to stars – Applies to galaxies, circumstellar dust, etc.
6. Extinction vs Attenuation Github: karllark/dust_attenuation Github: karllark/dust_extinction
7. Pair Method Github: karllark/measure_extinction OB stars ideal targets Luminous at all wavelengths Fairly simple atmospheres
8. Basic measurement is the color “excess” versus wavelength (in magnitudes as we are astronomers) Normalize so measurements with different dust columns can be compared A(V) determined by extrapolating to infinite wavelength e.g.,
9. Slide from Dries Van De Puttte
10. Wavelength axis variations Allow full FUV-MIR extinction to be seen Wavelength scale is proportional to energy Emphasizes UV wavelengths Versus λ Versus 1/λ UV Opt NIR MIR
11. Diffuse vs Dense Dust • Diffuse sightlines – Most detailed extinction studies – Generally A(V) values less than a few – No 3.0 μm H2 0 ice feature • Dense sightlines – Generally studied in the NIR/MIR only – Have 3.0 μm H2 0 ice feature Decleir et al. (2022, ApJ, 930, 15) H20 Ice
12. Our Galaxy
13. Stecher 1969, ApJ, 157, 125
14. International Ultraviolet Explorer 18 years! 100,000 UV spectra!
16. Witt, Bohlin, & Stecher 1984, 279, 698
17. 2175 A Bump width → strong variation center → almost no variation Fitzpatrick & Massa (1986, ApJ, 307, 286)
18. Fitzpatrick & Massa 1988, ApJ, 328, 734
20. Cardelli, Clayton, & Mathis 1988, ApJ, 329L, 33; 1989, ApJ, 345, 245
21. Valencic, Clayton, & Gordon 2004, ApJ, 616, 912
22. Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer 905 to 1195 Å
23. Gordon, Cartledge, & Clayton 2009, ApJ, 705, 1320
24. FUV (& all UV) extinction smooth Residuals due to stellar or ISM HI FUV rise consistent with feature peaking at ~800 Å
25. ApJ, in press Dries Van De Putte
26. FUV rise extinction component & H2 column Very strong correlation & goes through zero!!! Grain responsible for FUV rise and H2 co-spatial Not the case for the 2175 Å bump
27. Hubble Space Telescope 912 Å to 2.5 μm
29. Broad Optical Features (origin unknown) Long known Very Broad Structure Explained! Massa, Fitzpatrick, Gordon, et al. 2020, ApJ, 891, 67 Centers: 4370, 4870, & 6300 Å Widths: ~10% Two blue correlate w/ 2175 Å
30. NIR/MIR Extinction • Continuum measured via photometry (until 2021) • Features measured spectroscopically – Narrow wavelength ranges or towards “complicated” stars – 3.0 μm ice – 3.4 μm hydrocarbon – 10/20 μm silicate features
31. • Many ice features • 3.0 μm H2 0 the strongest • Requires A(V) > 3 Boogert, Gerakines, & Whittet
32. 3.4 μm Hydrocarbon grains Pendelton & Allamandola (2002, ApJS, 138, 75)
33. 10 & 20 μm Silicate Features Chiar & Tielens (2006, ApJ, 637, 774)
34. Crystalline Silicate Fraction ~0.2% (or zero) Kemper, Viernd, & Tielens (2004, ApJ, 609, 826) Amorphous Crystalline
35. NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility 0.8 to 20 μm
36. Marjorie Decleir
37. 3.0 μm ice feature measured in the diffuse average at A(ice)/A(V) = 0.0019 +/- 0.007 Not a significant detection, but intriguing at the level predicted by Potapov et al. (2021) if ice is present in shadowed pits in silicate grains
38. Spitzer Space Telescope 3 to 160 μm
41. Variations and 1st Direct Comparison of UV and MIR Strong variation Not correlated with grain size Silicates not correlated with 2175 A bump
42. In preparation Based on spectroscopy at all wavelengths
43. Average Variation with R(V)/grain size
44. MW Extinction Summary • Spectroscopic from FUV to MIR – FUV smooth & consistent with feature peaking ~800 Å – H2 correlates with FUV rise → co-spatial! – New optical features → unknown origin – NIR powerlaw & may contain H2 0 ice – MIR versus UV features → 2175 Å not due to silicates – R(V) dependent extinction relationship → on relationship for all wavelengths
45. Beyond Milky Way
46. Clayton & Martin 1985, ApJ, 288, 558 Add figure showing 30 Dor/LMC2
47. Misselt, Clayton, & Gordon 1999, ApJ, 515, 128
48. Prevot et al. 1984, A&A, 132, 389
49. SMC Extinction Curves Milky Way-like! (2175 Å bump) 4 similar curves are found in the star forming bar of the SMC! Ha image of the SMC Gordon & Clayton (1998, ApJ, 500, 816) Gordon et al. (2003, ApJ, 594, 279) STIS
50. SMC AzV 456 SMC Bar LMC2 LMC General MW Quiescent Processed Continuum of Properties Gordon et al. (2003, ApJ, 594, 279) Gordon et al. (2016, ApJ, 826, 104)
51. In preparation
52. Clayton et al. 2015, ApJ, 815, 14
53. M31/M33 Extinction • All w/ HST photometry • Similar to MW • Radial, metallicity variations • 1st measurements in M33 Petia Yanchulov Merica-Jones Clayton, G et al., in prep Yanchulov M-J, P. et al., in prep
54. Beyond the MW Summary • Large Magellanic Cloud (½ solar) – Most of LMC similar to MW – Differences in LMC2 Supershell (near 30 Dor) • Small Magellanic Cloud (1/5 solar) – Most very different from MW (very steep, no bump) – Small fraction, closer to MW (flatter w/ bump) • M31 (~solar) and M33 (½ solar) – Similar to MW (preliminary)
55. Future
56. HST • More galaxies – Investigate low metallicity galaxies • SMC unique? – Expand samples in large galaxies • Milky Way R(V) dependent extinction relationship works? • High/low R(V) – Probe extremes of dust size, curvature in R(V) relationship?
57. JWST • Two cycle 1 programs (PIs: Decleir & Zeegers) – 21 Milky Way sightlines from 2.4-28 μm – Continuum and 3.4, 10, & 20 μm features • Map features photometrically • LMC/SMC continuum & silicate measurements • Other galaxies (sensitivity?)
58. Photometric Feature Measurements 10 μm silicate 3 μm ice 3.4 μm hydrocarbon Burcu Günay
59. Summary • Extinction measurements are fundamental to understanding dust • Spectroscopic Extinction from FUV to MIR in Milky Way – Overall quite smooth, few broad features, DIBs (dust?) only narrow features – New broad features found in the optical – Intriguing correlations (or not) between features and gas tracers (esp. H2 ) – One R(V) extinction relationship for all wavelengths • Beyond Milky Way – Most of LMC, small fraction of SMC, M31, & M33 → similar to Milky Way – SMC & LMC2 Supershell region → weaker/non-existent bumps, stronger UV slope • Future w/ HST and JWST – More galaxies, more environments, larger samples
60. Thanks