Dust-to-gas ratio and phase transition of interstellar medium

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Hirashita, H [1 ]
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[1] Kyoto Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Astron, Sakyo Ku, Kyoto 6068502, Japan
关键词
ISM : clouds; ISM; dust; extinction; galaxies : evolution; galaxies : ISM; galaxies : spiral;
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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We discuss the time evolution of dust-to-gas mass ratio in the context of multi-phase model of interstellar medium. Phase transition of interstellar gas is considered to occur on a timescale of similar to 10(7-8) yr, according to a nonlinear open system model of interstellar medium. Since the phase transition changes the dust formation and destruction rates, the dust-to-gas ratio also fluctuates on the same timescale. This explains the scatter of the dust-to-gas ratios of spiral galaxies quantitatively, though we should note the large observational uncertainty.
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