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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 491, Issue 3, Pages 3844-3859Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz3253
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methods: numerical; dust, extinction; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: ISM; galaxies: spiral
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- Ministry of Science and Technology [MOST 105-2112-M-001-027-MY3, MOST 107-2923-M-001-003-MY3 (RFBR 18-52-52-006), MOST 108-2112-M-001-007-MY3]
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP17H01111]
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We compute the evolution of interstellar dust in a hydrodynamic simulation of an isolated disc galaxy. We newly implement the evolution of full grain size distribution by sampling 32 grid points on the axis of the grain radius. We solve it consistently with the chemical enrichment and hydrodynamic evolution of the galaxy. This enables us to theoretically investigate spatially resolved evolution of grain size distribution in a galaxy. The grain size distribution evolves from a large-grain-dominated (greater than or similar to 0.1 mu m) phase to a small-grain production phase, eventually converging to a power-law-like grain size distribution similar to the so-called MRN distribution. We find that the small-grain abundance is higher in the dense interstellar medium (ISM) in the early epoch (t less than or similar to 1 Gyr) because of efficient dust growth by accretion, while coagulation makes the small-grain abundance less enhanced in the dense ISM later. This leads to steeper extinction curves in the dense ISM than in the diffuse ISM in the early phase, while they show the opposite trend later. The radial trend of extinction curves is described by faster evolution in the inner part. We also confirm that the simulation reproduces the observed relation between dust-to-gas ratio and metallicity, and the radial gradients of dust-to-gas ratio and dust-to-metal ratio in nearby galaxies. Since the above change in the grain size distribution occurs in t similar to 1 Gyr, the age and density dependence of grain size distribution has a significant impact on the extinction curves even at high redshift.
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