Dust grain growth in the interstellar medium of 5<z<6.5 quasars

Details Dust grain growth in the interstellar medium of 5<z<6.5 quasars Dust grain growth in the interstellar medium of 5<z<6.5 quasars

2010-06-28

arxiv.org/abs/1006.5466v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

A&A, accepted. 5 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables

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We investigate whether stellar dust sources i.e. asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and supernovae (SNe) can account for dust detected in 55 QSOs, whereas SNe may be able to account for dust in some QSOs. However, they require very high dust yields even for a top-heavy initial mass function. This suggests additional non-stellar dust formation mechanism e.g. significant dust grain growth in the interstellar medium of at least three out of nine z>5 QSOs. SNe (but not AGB stars) may deliver enough heavy elements to fuel this growth.

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