Invited Presentation

Galaxy simulation with the evolution of grain size distribution

Author(s): Shohei Aoyama, Hirashita Hiroyuki (ASIAA), Kentaro Nagamine (Osaka University)

Presenter: Shohei Aoyama (Academia Sinica)

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 (≳ 0.1 μm) 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 nd that the small-grain abundance is higher in the dense ISM in the early epoch (t ≲ 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 is also described by faster evolution in the inner part. We also conrm that the simulation reproduces the observed trend in the relation between dust-to-gas ratio and metallicity, and in the radial gradients of dust-to-gas ratio and dust-to-metal ratio and the extinction curve of Milky Way. Since the above change in the grain size distribution occurs in t 1 Gyr, the age and density dependence of grain size distribution has a signicant impact on the extinction curves even at high redshift.