Dusty Thoughts
Metals/Dust Meeting
#MetalsDust2020
26 Oct 2020
Karl D. Gordon
Astronomer
STScI
[email protected]
@karllark2000
karllark@github
“Have Dust – Will Study”
Image: Messenger, Scott & Sandford, S. & Brownlee, D.. (2006). The Population of Starting Materials Available for Solar System Construction
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“The objective of this talk (R0.1) will
be to try asking the main questions
about metals and dust that you
would like to be addressed during
this conference (given the general
program, of course).”
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Dust
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Dust
“Have Dust – Will Study”
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Cautions
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Biased by my knowledge/experience
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Focused on Dust
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Dated? (no longer can even scan astrop-ph)
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Comments/suggestions/etc always welcome
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Questions, slack, email, twitter, ...
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Questions
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What is dust?
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What are the dust properties at different z?
– Metallicity, redshift, distance in/from a galaxy, ...
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What is the origin of dust?
– Young stars, evolved stars, ISM, …
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Connections
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Local ↔ Distant
– Local↔ Distant Universe
– Often proposed, rarely done
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Observations ↔ Theory
– UV, IR, submm, optical, X-ray, ...
– Grain models, Radiative Transfer
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Observations
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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
– What can we expect for dust?
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ALMA & HST
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Optical/NIR/MIR ground-based observatories
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Archival Observations
– IRAS, ISO, Spitzer, Herschel, Akari, Chandra, etc.
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What have/will we learn about dust?
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Dust versus Metallicity (UV)
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Ultraviolet → effects of dust strong, 2175 A bump
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UV extinction → Local Group
– Average varies with metallicity yet full range at single metallicity
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UV attenuation → More distant galaxies
– Wider range of metallicities
– Extinction ↔ Attenuation
– What is the full range of observed UV attenuations?
– Radiative Transfer needed to interpret
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Also Fitzpatrick (1999) Valencic et al. (2004),
Gordon et al. (2009), Fitzpatrick et al. (2019)
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SMC AzV 456
SMC Bar
LMC2
LMC General
MW
Quiescent?
Processed?
Large Range of Extinction Curves
UV Slope
Gordon et al. (2003, ApJ, 594, 279)
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MW has “LMC/SMC” like sightlines
Low density sightlines show MC dust
Same sightlines also show signatures of
processing (high Ca/Na line ratios)
Clayton et al. (2000, ApJS,129, 147) Valencic et al. (2003, ApJ, 598, 369)
HD 204827 shows SMC Bar dust
after foreground subtracted
HD 204827
SMC Bar
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Extinction ↔ Attenuation
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Extinction → direct measure of dust grains
– Hard to measure outside the Local Group
(except GRBs?) (with existing facilities)
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Attenuation → dust grains + geometry
– Geometry = star/dust & ISM structure
– Can be measured at many redshifts
– Need dust different than Local Group?
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Radiative Transfer
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Global and Local geometry matters
– Global: spherical, disk, arms, …
– Local: small scale clumpiness
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The physics of dust RT restricts the allowed attenuation curves
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Need
– Grids: explore parameter space (too simple?)
– Individual galaxies: detailed studies (too complex?)
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Global Geometries Local + Global Geometries
Witt, Thronsen, & Capuano (1992, ApJ, 393, 611) Witt & Gordon (2000, ApJ, 528, 799)
Seon & Draine (2016, ApJ, 833, 201)
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Witt & Gordon (2000, ApJ, 528, 799)
For an alternative explanation with MW dust solution for starbursts, see:
Panuzzo et al. (2007, MNRAS, 375, 640)
SMC-like dust in Starbursts
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Detailed Modeling
of M51
De Looze et al. (2014, A&A, 571, 69)
Dust Heating
63% from young stars (< 100 Myr)
37% from old stars (~10 Gyr)
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Dust versus Metallicity (IR)
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Emission probes dust and illuminating sources
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Total emission → mass of dust
– High redshift/low metallicity → clues to dust formation
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Aromatic/PAH features
– Probes of carbonaceous dust
– Galaxies with different environments (SF, metallicity)
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Dust Masses
Aniano et al. (2020, ApJ, 889, 150)
Data:
Herschel+Spitzer
Lines:
Simple Model with dust
formation/destruction
time scales
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Total Dust Mass “Scare” Plot
Deriving dust mass from
IR Emission non-trival
Variations with metallicity?
Calibration with depletions?
Clark et al. (2019, MNRAS, 489, 5256)
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MIR Spectra
Starbursts: Engelbracht et al. (2008, ApJ, 678, 804)
M101 HII regions: Gordon et al. (2008, ApJ, 682, 336)
Galaxies: Smith et al. (2007, ApJ, 656, 770)
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Stacked Z = 1 LIRGs Stacked Z = 2 ULIRGs
Fadda et al. (2010, ApJ, 719, 425)
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Relative PAH
masses
Draine et al. (2007, ApJ, 663, 866)
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Origin of Dust
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Formation: AGB stars, Supernovae, ISM
– Do we need all 3?
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Processing
– Growth in ISM
– Destruction in supernovae shocks
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What are the keys to the dust properties?
(testable?)
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Formation
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Stars: AGB/SN/other sources?
– Definitely grains condense from the gas phase
(SN may destroy all the grains they form?)
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ISM
– Atoms move from the gas ↔ solid phase
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Depletions, ice formation
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Magellanic Clouds
Excellent census
AGB: most dust from a few
extreme stars (enough)?
Transport?
Uncertainties?
Srinivasan et al. (2016, MNRAS, 457, 2814)
Carbon
Oxygen
Total
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Magellanic Clouds
SN1987A: ~0.8 M_solar
Single source
Matsuura et al. (2015, ApJ, 800, 50)
Indebetouw et al. (2014, ApJL, 78, L2)
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Processing
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What are the grain properties in AGB/SN?
– Features? 2175 A, silicates, aromatic/PAH, DIBs, etc.
(observationally challenging?)
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How important is cycling between diffuse/dense clouds
to get observed ISM dust properties?
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Is the growth in the ISM → clouds balanced by
destruction ← clouds?
– Is something left on the grain? (observational signatures?)
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Depletions, Gas/Dust Ratio → observational signatures
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Milky Way Depletions
Jenkins (2009, ApJ, 700, 1299)
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Magellanic Cloud Depletions
Roman-Duval et al. (2019, ApJ, 871, 151)
Also: Jenkins & Wallerstein (2017, ApJ, 838, 85)
LMC: similar to MW?
SMC: less depleted
See talk by Roman-Duval
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Gas/Dust Ratio
Roman-Duval et al. (2017, ApJ, 841, 72)
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Questions
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What is dust?
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What are the dust properties at different z?
– Metallicity, redshift, distance in/from a galaxy, ...
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What is the origin of dust?
– Young stars, evolved stars, ISM, …
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Thanks
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Simple
Attenuation
Example
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Global and Local
Geometries
with Dust Emission
Law, Gordon, & Misselt (2018, ApJS, 236, 32)
Law, Gordon, & Misselt (2020, in prep)