Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21545402s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #454.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.468
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We investigate the destruction of newly-formed dust grains by sputtering in the reverse shocks of supernova remnants through hydrodynamic simulations. Using an idealized setup of planar shock impacting a dense, spherical clump, we implant a population of Lagrangian particles into the clump to represent a distribution of dust grains, then post-process the simulation output to calculate the grain sputtering for a variety of species and size distributions. We explore the parameter space appropriate for this problem by altering the over-density of the ejecta clump, the density profile of the clump, and the speed of the reverse shock. Since radiative cooling could lower the temperature of the medium in which the dust is embedded and potentially protect the dust by slowing or halting grain sputtering, we study the effects of different cooling methods over the time scale of the simulations. We also consider the influence of increased projectile mass on sputtering yields in metal-enriched plasmas. In general, results indicate that grains with radii less than 0.1 microns are sputtered to much smaller radii and often destroyed completely, while larger grains tend to survive their interaction with the reverse shock. The survival rate of grains formed by supernovae in the early universe is crucial in determining whether or not they can act as the "dust factories” needed to explain high-redshift dust mass estimates.
Shull Michael J.
Silvia Devin W.
Smith Daniel B.
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