Observational Constraints on the Physical Properties of Interstellar Dust in the Post-Planck Era

Abstract

We present a synthesis of the astronomical observations constraining the wavelength-dependent extinction, emission, and polarization from interstellar dust from UV to microwave wavelengths on diffuse Galactic sightlines. Representative solid phase abundances for those sightlines are also derived. Given the sensitive new observations of polarized dust emission provided by the Planck satellite, we place particular emphasis on dust polarimetry, including continuum polarized extinction, polarization in the carbonaceous and silicate spectroscopic features, the wavelength-dependent polarization fraction of the dust emission, and the connection between optical polarized extinction and far-infrared polarized emission. Together, these constitute a set of constraints that should be reproduced by models of dust in the diffuse interstellar medium.

39 pages, 14 figures. Updated to accepted version

References in corpus (45)

• The NumPy array: a structure for efficient numerical computation
• Infrared Emission from Interstellar Dust. IV. The Silicate-Graphite-PAH Model in the Post-Spitzer Era
• HI4PI: A full-sky HI survey based on EBHIS and GASS
• A Unified Representation of Gas-Phase Element Depletions in the Interstellar Medium
• alpha-, r-, and s-process element trends in the Galactic thin and thick disks
• Present-day cosmic abundances. A comprehensive study of nearby early B-type stars and implications for stellar and Galactic evolution and interstellar dust models
• The Optical to Mid-Infrared Extinction Law Based on the APOGEE, Gaia DR2, Pan-STARRS1, SDSS, APASS, 2MASS and WISE Surveys
• Planck intermediate results. XIX. An overview of the polarized thermal emission from Galactic dust
• Planck intermediate results. LVII. Joint Planck LFI and HFI data processing
• An Analysis of the Shapes of Interstellar Extinction Curves. VII. Milky Way Spectrophotometric Optical-through-Ultraviolet Extinction and Its R-Dependence
• The elemental composition of the Sun II. The iron group elements Sc to Ni
• The elemental composition of the Sun I. The intermediate mass elements Na to Ca
• Studies of the Diffuse Interstellar Bands. III. HD 183143
• Separation of anomalous and synchrotron emissions using WMAP polarization data
• Planck intermediate results. XXII. Frequency dependence of thermal emission from Galactic dust in intensity and polarization
• The Mid-Infrared Extinction Law in the Ophiuchus, Perseus, and Serpens Molecular Clouds
• Interstellar Extinction Law toward the Galactic Center II: V, J, H, and Ks Bands
• A new, large-scale map of interstellar reddening derived from HI emission
• An Analysis of the Shapes of Interstellar Extinction Curves. VI. The Near-IR Extinction Law
• Confirming interstellar C${}_{60}^{+}$ using the Hubble Space Telescope
• The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XVI. The optical+NIR extinction laws in 30 Doradus and the photometric determination of the effective temperatures of OB stars
• The gas-to-extinction ratio and the gas distribution in the Galaxy
• Planck intermediate results. XXI. Comparison of polarized thermal emission from Galactic dust at 353 GHz with interstellar polarization in the visible
• Spectropolarimetry of the 3.4 micron Feature in the Diffuse ISM toward the Galactic Center Quintuplet Cluster
• All the PAHs: an AKARI-Spitzer Cross Archival Spectroscopic Survey of Aromatic Emission in Galaxies
• Extended Red Emission in High-Galactic Latitude Interstellar Clouds
• Detection of Buckminsterfullerene emission in the diffuse interstellar medium
• The Composition of Interstellar Grains Toward Zeta Ophiuchi: Constraining the Elemental Budget Near the Diffuse-Dense Cloud Transition
• Mapping the Extinction Curve in 3D: Structure on Kiloparsec Scales
• Silicate Composition of the Interstellar Medium
• Absorption and scattering by interstellar dust in the silicon K-edge of GX 5-1
• Extinction Maps towards the Milky Way Bulge: 2D and 3D Tests with APOGEE
• X-Ray Scattering by Nonspherical Grains. I. Oblate Spheroids
• GALACTICNUCLEUS: A high-angular-resolution JHKs imaging survey of the Galactic centre III. Evidence for wavelength dependence of the extinction curve in the near-infrared
• Graphite Revisited
• Extreme Starlight Polarization in a Region with Highly Polarized Dust Emission
• Magnesium and silicon in interstellar dust: an X-ray overview
• The Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey. XX. Dust and gas in the foreground Galactic cirrus
• Galactic extinction laws: I. A global NIR analysis with 2MASS photometry
• X-ray Dust Scattering at Small Angles: The Complete Halo around GX13+1
• Extended Red Emission in IC59 and IC63
• Spectropolarimetry of the 3.4 micron absorption feature in NGC 1068
• Detection of Polarized Infrared Emission by Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the MWC 1080 Nebula
• Spectropolarimetric Constraints on the Nature of Interstellar Grains
• Condensed Matter Astrophysics: A Prescription for Determining the Species-Specific Composition and Quantity of Interstellar Dust using X-rays

Cited by in corpus (66)

• The Astrodust+PAH Model: A Unified Description of the Extinction, Emission, and Polarization from Dust in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium
• Excitation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Emission: Dependence on Size Distribution, Ionization, and Starlight Spectrum and Intensity
• CCAT-prime Collaboration: Science Goals and Forecasts with Prime-Cam on the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope
• The Dielectric Function of "Astrodust" and Predictions for Polarization in the 3.4$\mu$m and 10$\mu$m Features
• Dust, CO and [CI]: Cross-calibration of molecular gas mass tracers in metal-rich galaxies across cosmic time
• PHANGS-JWST First Results: Multi-wavelength view of feedback-driven bubbles (The Phantom Voids) across NGC 628
• METAL: The Metal Evolution, Transport, and Abundance in the Large Magellanic Cloud Hubble program. III. Interstellar Depletions, Dust-to-Metal, and Dust-to-Gas Ratios Versus Metallicity
• A Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Survey of Interstellar Molecular Hydrogen in the Galactic Disk
• THEMIS 2.0: A self-consistent model for dust extinction, emission, and polarisation
• Influence of grain growth on CO2 ice spectroscopic profiles : Modelling for dense cores and disks
• Using the Starlight Polarization Efficiency Integral to Constrain Shapes and Porosities of Interstellar Grains
• Close-up view of a luminous star-forming galaxy at z=2.95
• The Simons Observatory: Galactic Science Goals and Forecasts
• Starlight-polarization-based tomography of the magnetized interstellar medium: PASIPHAE's line-of-sight inversion method
• Physical Modeling of Dust Polarization from Magnetically Enhanced Radiative Torque (MRAT) Alignment in Protostellar Cores with POLARIS
• The first degree-scale starlight-polarization-based tomography map of the magnetized interstellar medium
• Ray-tracing simulations and spectral models of X-ray radiation in dusty media
• The Optical to Infrared Extinction Law of Magellanic Clouds Based on Red Supergiant and Classical Cepheid
• Low-temperature optical constants of amorphous silicate dust analogues
• Molecular hydrogen and its proxies HCO${}^{+}$ and CO in the diffuse interstellar medium
• CENN: A fully convolutional neural network for CMB recovery in realistic microwave sky simulations
• Benchmarking Dust Emission Models in M101
• Dark dust II: Properties in the general field of the diffuse ISM
• The Polstar High Resolution Spectropolarimetry MIDEX Mission
• Interstellar Polarization Survey III: Relation Between Optical Polarization and Reddening in the General Interstellar Medium
• Interstellar Extinction and Elemental Abundances: Individual Sight Lines
• Joint Modelling of Dust Scattering and Thermal Emission: The Spider Complex
• The magnetic fields of starburst galaxies. I. Identification and characterization of the thermal polarization in the galactic disk and outflow
• Impact of stellar population synthesis choices on forward modelling-based redshift distribution estimates
• Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) Science: Our Galaxy
• A new analytical scattering phase function for interstellar dust
• JWST observations of the Horsehead photon-dominated region I. First results from multi-band near- and mid-infrared imaging
• Infrared spectra of solid indene pure and in water ice. Implications for observed IR absorptions in TMC-1
• Dust emissivity in resolved spiral galaxies
• Evolution of dust grain size distribution and grain porosity in galaxies
• PDRs4All. V. Modelling the dust evolution across the illuminated edge of the Orion Bar
• Gas, dust, and the CO-to-molecular gas conversion factor in low-metallicity starbursts
• On the origin of radio-loudness in active galactic nuclei using far-infrared polarimetric observations
• On Far-Infrared and Submm Circular Polarization
• Evolution of grain size distribution with enhanced abundance of small carbonaceous grains in galactic environments
• Searching for Anomalous Microwave Emission in nearby galaxies. K-band observations with the Sardinia Radio Telescope
• Reconciling X-ray and 21cm HI absorption gas column densities toward obscured AGN
• Sensitivity of Polarization to Grain Shape: I. Convex Shapes
• 3D ISM structure challenges the Serkowski relation
• SOFIA/HAWC+ observations of the Crab Nebula: dust properties from polarised emission
• Ultraviolet Spectropolarimetry with Polstar: Interstellar Medium Science
• Detection of Deuterated Hydrocarbon Nanoparticles in the Whirlpool Galaxy, M51
• Dark Dust III: The high-quality single-cloud reddening curve sample. Scrutinizing extinction curves in the Milky Way
• WALOP-South: A Four-Camera One-Shot Imaging Polarimeter for PASIPHAE Survey. Paper II -- Polarimetric Modelling and Calibration
• The Interstellar Dust Emission Spectrum, Going beyond the single temperature greybody
• Mapping the aliphatic hydrocarbon content of interstellar dust in the Galactic plane
• The rotational disruption of porous dust aggregates from ab-initio kinematic calculations
• Self-consistent grain depletions and abundances I: The Orion Nebula as a test case
• The BLAST Observatory: A Sensitivity Study for Far-IR Balloon-borne Polarimeters
• Revisiting the Local Interstellar Radiation Field using Gaia DR3
• C/O ratios in self-gravitating protoplanetary discs with dust evolution
• Sensitivity of Polarization to Grain Shape: II. Aggregates
• Continuum, CO and Water vapour maps of the Orion Nebula. First millimetre spectral imaging with Concerto
• Relating spatially resolved optical attenuation, dust and gas in nearby galaxies
• Revisiting the unification of tidal disruption events with polarimetry
• The Dust Polarisation and Magnetic Field Structure in the Centre of NGC253 with ALMA
• Photometric Mapping of Carbonaceous/Siliceous Dust and Water Ice in the ISM with JWST: Applications to the Dense Sightlines
• Large Interstellar Polarisation Survey. III. Observational constraints on the structure of grains
• TRIShUL: Technique for Reconstructing magnetic Interstellar Structure Using starLight polarization
• Chemistry of Dark Molecular Clouds
• Setting the Stage: The Early History of the Solar System