Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-12-14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal, 15 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/339234
An analytical expression is presented that allows gas-to-dust elemental depletions to be estimated in interstellar environments of different types, including Damped Ly alpha systems, by scaling an arbitrary depletion pattern chosen as a reference. As an improvement on previous work, the scaling relation allows the dust chemical composition to vary and includes a set of parameters which describe how sensitive the dust composition is to changes in both the dust-to-metals ratio and the composition of the medium. These parameters can be estimated empirically from studies of Galactic and extragalactic depletion patterns. The scaling law is able to fit all the typical depletion patterns of the Milky Way ISM (cold disk, warm disk, and warm halo) with a single set of parameters, by only varying the dust-to-metals ratio. The dependence of the scaling law on the abundances of the medium has been tested using interstellar observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), for which peculiar depletion patterns have been reported in literature. The scaling law is able to fit these depletion patterns assuming that the SMC relative abundances are slightly non solar.
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