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Dust destruction rates and lifetimes in the magellanic clouds
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Gall, Christa Boyer, Martha L. Dwek, Eli Meixner, Margaret Roman-Duval, Julia Tchernyshyov, Kirill Temim, Tea |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | The nature, composition, abundance, and size distribution of dust in galaxies is determined by the rate at which it is created in the different stellar sources and destroyed by interstellar shocks. Because of their extensive wavelength coverage, proximity, and nearly face-on geometry, the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) provide a unique opportunity to study these processes in great detail. In this paper we use the complete sample of supernova remnants (SNRs) in the MCs to calculate the lifetime and destruction efficiencies of silicate and carbon dust in these galaxies. We find dust lifetimes of 22+/-13 Myr (30+/-17 Myr) for silicate (carbon) grains in the LMC, and 54 +/- 32 Myr (72 +/- 43 Myr) for silicate (carbon) grains in the SMC. The significantly shorter lifetimes in the MCs, as compared to the Milky Way, are explained as the combined effect of their lower total dust mass, and the fact that the dust-destroying isolated SNe in the MCs seem to be preferentially occurring in regions with higher than average dust-to-gas (D2G) mass ratios. We also calculate the supernova rate and the current star formation rate in the MCs, and use them to derive maximum dust injection rates by asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and core collapse supernovae (CCSNe). We find that the injection rates are an order of magnitude lower than the dust destruction rates by the SNRs. This supports the conclusion that, unless the dust destruction rates have been considerably overestimated, most of the dust must be reconstituted from surviving grains in dense molecular clouds. More generally, we also discuss the dependence of the dust destruction rate on the local D2G mass ratio and the ambient gas density and metallicity, as well as the application of our results to other galaxies and dust evolution models.|||||||||||| |
| File Size | 469537 |
| Page Count | 15 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20150007947 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t8hf2v30k |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2015-01-27 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Dust Destruction Rates Size Distribution Galaxies Mass Ratios Silicates Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars Carbon Star Formation Rate Gas Density Histograms Supernova Remnants Magellanic Clouds Cosmic Dust Milky Way Galaxy Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
