Extinction curves expected in young galaxies

Details Extinction curves expected in young galaxies Extinction curves expected in young galaxies

2005-01-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0501158v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 357 (2005) 1077-1087

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08730.x

We investigate the extinction curves of young galaxies in which dust is supplied from Type II supernovae (SNe II) and/or pair instability supernovae (PISNe). We adopt Nozawa et al. (2003) for compositions and size distribution of grains formed in SNe II and PISNe. We find that the extinction curve is quite sensitive to internal metal mixing in supernovae (SNe). The extinction curves predicted from the mixed SNe are dominated by SiO2 and is characterised by steep rise from infrared to ultraviolet (UV). The dust from unmixed SNe shows shallower extinction curve, because of the contribution from large-sized (~ 0.1 um) Si grains. However, the progenitor mass is important in unmixed SNe II: If the progenitor mass is smaller than ~ 20 Msun, the extinction curve is flat in UV; otherwise, the extinction curve rises toward the short wavelength. The extinction curve observed in a high-redshift quasar (z=6.2) favours the dust production by unmixed SNe II. We also provide some useful observational quantities, so that our model might be compared with future high-z extinction curves.

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