Far-infrared to millimeter astrophysical dust emission I: A model based on physical properties of amorphous solids

Abstract

We propose a new description of astronomical dust emission in the spectral region from the Far-Infrared to millimeter wavelengths. Unlike previous classical models, this description explicitly incorporates the effect of the disordered internal structure of amorphous dust grains. The model is based on results from solid state physics, used to interpret laboratory data. The model takes into account the effect of absorption by Disordered Charge Distribution, as well as the effect of absorption by localized Two Level Systems. We review constraints on the various free parameters of the model from theory and laboratory experimental data. We show that, for realistic values of the free parameters, the shape of the emission spectrum will exhibit very broad structures which shape will change with the temperature of dust grains in a non trivial way. The spectral shape also depends upon the parameters describing the internal structure of the grains. This opens new perspectives as to identifying the nature of astronomical dust from the observed shape of the FIR/mm emission spectrum. A companion paper will provide an explicit comparison of the model with astronomical data.

accepted in A&A, 21 pages, 9 figures

References in corpus (18)

• First Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Foreground Emission
• Infrared Emission from Interstellar Dust. I. Stochastic Heating of Small Grains
• Extrapolation of Galactic Dust Emission at 100 Microns to CMBR Frequencies Using FIRAS
• The absence of crystalline silicates in the diffuse interstellar medium
• Foregrounds and Forecasts for the Cosmic Microwave Background
• Detection and Characterization of Cold Interstellar Dust and PAH Emission from COBE Observations
• FAR-INFRARED SPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE GALAXY BY COBE
• ISM Properties in Low-Metallicity Environments III. The Dust Spectral Energy Distributions of II Zw 40, He 2-10 and NGC 1140
• ISM Properties in Low-Metallicity Environments II. The Dust Spectral Energy Distribution of NGC 1569
• Inverse temperature dependence of the dust submillimeter spectral index
• Foregrounds and CMB Experiments: I. Semi-analytical estimates of contamination
• The Planck High Frequency Instrument, a 3rd generation CMB experiment, and a full sky submillimeter survey
• Forsterite Amorphisation by Ion Irradiation: Monitoring by Infrared Spectroscopy
• Submillimeter mapping and analysis of cold dust condensations in the Orion M42 star forming complex
• The complete submillimetre spectrum of NGC 891
• Submillimeter dust emission of the M17 complex measured with PRONAOS
• Universality in Glassy Low-Temperature Physics
• Foreground analysis from the 1-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) data

Cited by in corpus (120)

• The CO-to-H2 Conversion Factor
• Planck 2013 results. XI. All-sky model of thermal dust emission
• Gas-to-Dust mass ratios in local galaxies over a 2 dex metallicity range
• Andromeda's Dust
• The evolution of amorphous hydrocarbons in the ISM: dust modelling from a new vantage point
• The global dust SED: Tracing the nature and evolution of dust with DustEM
• Planck 2013 results. XXX. Cosmic infrared background measurements and implications for star formation
• Herschel Far-Infrared and Sub-millimeter Photometry for the KINGFISH Sample of Nearby Galaxies
• An Overview of the Dwarf Galaxy Survey
• The Interstellar dust properties of nearby galaxies
• The pre-launch Planck Sky Model: a model of sky emission at submillimetre to centimetre wavelengths
• Planck Early Results: Thermal dust in Nearby Molecular Clouds
• Non-Standard Grain Properties, Dark Gas Reservoir, and Extended Submillimeter Excess, Probed by Herschel in the Large Magellanic Cloud
• A measurement of secondary cosmic microwave background anisotropies from the 2500-square-degree SPT-SZ survey
• Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Galactic Foreground Emission
• Planck Early Results: The Galactic Cold Core Population revealed by the first all-sky survey
• Dust Spectral Energy Distributions of Nearby Galaxies: an Insight from the Herschel Reference Survey
• Planck intermediate results. XXII. Frequency dependence of thermal emission from Galactic dust in intensity and polarization
• Probing the Dust Properties of Galaxies at Submillimetre Wavelengths II. Dust-to-gas mass ratio trends with metallicity and the submm excess in dwarf galaxies
• Planck intermediate results. XVII. Emission of dust in the diffuse interstellar medium from the far-infrared to microwave frequencies
• Revealing the cold dust in low-metallicity environments: I - Photometry analysis of the Dwarf Galaxy Survey with Herschel
• Mapping the cold dust temperatures and masses of nearby Kingfish galaxies with Herschel
• Planck Early Results: Origin of the submm excess dust emission in the Magellanic Clouds
• Angular Power Spectra of the Millimeter Wavelength Background Light from Dusty Star-forming Galaxies with the South Pole Telescope
• Calibration of the total infrared luminosity of nearby galaxies from Spitzer and Herschel bands
• The Herschel and JCMT Gould Belt Surveys: Constraining Dust Properties in the Perseus B1 Clump with PACS, SPIRE, and SCUBA-2
• Submillimetre point sources from the Archeops experiment: Very Cold Clumps in the Galactic Plane
• Modeling Dust and Starlight in Galaxies Observed by Spitzer and Herschel: NGC 628 and NGC 6946
• PACS photometry of the Herschel Reference Survey - Far-infrared/sub-millimeter colours as tracers of dust properties in nearby galaxies
• The Dust Properties of Bubble HII Regions as seen by Herschel
• A Nearby Galaxy Perspective on Dust Evolution. Scaling relations and constraints on the dust build-up in galaxies with the DustPedia and DGS samples
• Planck Early Results: The submillimetre properties of a sample of Galactic cold clumps
• Submillimeter to centimeter excess emission from the Magellanic Clouds. II. On the nature of the excess
• The State-of-Play of Anomalous Microwave Emission (AME) Research
• Low temperature FIR and submm mass absorption coefficient of interstellar silicate dust analogues
• Variations of the spectral index of dust emissivity from Hi-GAL observations of the Galactic plane
• Probing the Dust Properties of Galaxies up to Submillimetre Wavelengths I. The Spectral Energy Distribution of dwarf galaxies using LABOCA
• Improved Models for Cosmic Infrared Background Anisotropies: New Constraints on the IR Galaxy Population
• Determining dust temperatures and masses in the Herschel era: the importance of observations longward of 200 micron
• FIR colours of nearby late-type galaxies in the Herschel Reference Survey
• Observational Constraints on Submillimeter Dust Opacity
• Accuracy of core mass estimates in simulated observations of dust emission
• Dust Emissivity Variations In the Milky Way
• BLAST: The Mass Function, Lifetimes, and Properties of Intermediate Mass Cores from a 50 Square Degree Submillimeter Galactic Survey in Vela (l = ~265)
• Sub-millimeter to centimeter excess emission from the Magellanic Clouds. I. Global spectral energy distribution
• Planck intermediate results. XIV. Dust emission at millimetre wavelengths in the Galactic plane
• The JCMT Nearby Galaxies Legacy Survey III: Comparisons of cold dust, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, molecular gas, and atomic gas in NGC 2403
• Very Large Interstellar Grains as Evidenced by the Mid-Infrared Extinction
• Galactic cold cores VI. Dust opacity spectral index
• Properties of Galactic cirrus clouds observed by BOOMERanG
• The Submm and mm Excess of the SMC: Magnetic Dipole Emission from Magnetic Nanoparticles?
• Mapping Obscuration to Reionization with ALMA (MORA): 2mm Efficiently Selects the Highest-Redshift Obscured Galaxies
• Cool dust heating and temperature mixing in nearby star-forming galaxies
• Low temperature MIR to submillimeter mass absorption coefficient of interstellar dust analogues I: Mg-rich glassy silicates
• The degeneracy between dust colour temperature and spectral index. Comparison of methods for estimating the beta(T) relation
• The physical properties of the dust in the RCW 120 HII region as seen by Herschel
• Spitzer and Herschel multiwavelength characterization of the dust content of evolved HII regions
• Modelling the dust emission from dense interstellar clouds: disentangling the effects of radiative transfer and dust properties
• Probing changes of dust properties along a chain of solar-type prestellar and protostellar cores in Taurus with NIKA
• Far-Infrared to Millimeter Astrophysical Dust Emission. II: Comparison of the Two-Level Systems (TLS) model with Astronomical Data
• Low-temperature MIR to submillimeter mass absorption coefficient of interstellar dust analogues II: Mg and Fe-rich amorphous silicates
• The Dust & Gas Properties of M83
• Profiles of interstellar cloud filaments. Observational effects in synthetic sub-millimetre observations
• The effect of temperature mixing on the observable (T,beta)-relation of interstellar dust clouds
• Evidence for Large Grains in the Star-forming Filament OMC-2/3
• Measurements of the dust properties in z~1-3 SMGs with ALMA
• From grains to pebbles: the influence of size distribution and chemical composition on dust emission properties
• Dust Emission from the Perseus Molecular Cloud
• Triggered Star Formation and Dust around Mid-Infrared-Identified Bubbles
• The Herschel Virgo cluster survey: V. Star-forming dwarf galaxies - dust in metal-poor environments
• Dust Emissivity in the Star-Forming Filament OMC 2/3
• Herschel-ATLAS: Statistical Properties of Galactic Cirrus in the GAMA-9 Hour Science Demonstration Phase Field
• Untangling the Nature of Spatial Variations of Cold Dust Properties in Star Forming Galaxies
• Cross-correlation of cosmic far-infrared background anisotropies with large scale structures
• The thermal dust emission in the N158-N159-N160 (LMC) star forming complex mapped by Spitzer, Herschel and LABOCA
• Detection and characterization of a 500 mic dust emissivity excess in the Galactic Plane using Herschel/Hi-GAL observations
• Tracing molecular gas mass in extreme extragalactic environments: an observational study
• Herschel photometric observations of the low metallicity dwarf galaxy NGC 1705
• Properties of massive star-forming clumps with infall motions
• Determination of the Cosmic Infrared Background from COBE/FIRAS and Planck HFI Observations
• The Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey. XVIII. Star-forming dwarf galaxies in a cluster environment
• JINGLE V: Dust properties of nearby galaxies derived from hierarchical Bayesian SED fitting
• Detection of Spectral Variations of Anomalous Microwave Emission with QUIJOTE and C-BASS
• Exploring the Dust Content of Galactic Winds with Herschel. I. NGC 4631
• Physics of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy
• Investigating the presence of 500 um submillimeter excess emission in local star forming galaxies
• The Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey XVI: a cluster inventory
• Bayesian method for the analysis of the dust emission in the Far-Infrared and Submillimeter
• New ALMA constraints on the star-forming ISM at low metallicity: A 50 pc view of the blue compact dwarf galaxy SBS0335-052
• The dust SED of dwarf galaxies I. The case of NGC 4214
• ORion Alma New GEneration Survey (ORANGES) I. Dust continuum and free-free emission of OMC-2/3 filament protostars
• JINGLE, a JCMT legacy survey of dust and gas for galaxy evolution studies: II. SCUBA-2 850 μm data reduction and dust flux density catalogues
• Herschel and JCMT observations of the early-type dwarf galaxy NGC 205
• CENN: A fully convolutional neural network for CMB recovery in realistic microwave sky simulations
• Estimation of high-resolution dust column density maps. Comparison of modified black-body fits and radiative transfer modelling
• Far-infrared/sub-millimetre properties of pre-stellar cores L1521E, L1521F and L1689B as revealed by the Herschel SPIRE instrument -- I. Central positions
• Confirmation of Enhanced Long Wavelength Dust Emission in OMC 2/3
• AzTEC Survey of the Central Molecular Zone: Increasing Spectral Index of Dust with Density
• Modeling and predicting the shape of the far-infrared to submillimeter emission in ultra-compact HII regions and cold clumps
• Foreground Bias From Parametric Models of Far-IR Dust Emission
• A high dust emissivity index beta for a CO-faint galaxy in a filamentary Lyman-alpha nebula at z=3.1
• Effects of dust abundance on the far-infrared colours of blue compact dwarf galaxies
• PILOT: a balloon-borne experiment to measure the polarized FIR emission of dust grains in the interstellar medium
• Characterization of dense Planck clumps observed with Herschel and SCUBA-2
• $\text{Herschel}$ Photometric Observations of $\mathrm{L}\mathrm{ITTLE}$ $\mathrm{T}\mathrm{HINGS}$ Dwarf Galaxies
• Enhanced dust emissivity power-law index along the western H$\alpha$ filament of NGC 1569
• Toward a better understanding of the mid-infrared emission in the LMC
• Thermal emission from the amorphous dust: An alternative possibility of the origin of the anomalous microwave emission
• Revisiting the dust properties in the molecular clouds of the Large Magellanic Cloud
• Mitigating Bias in CMB B-modes from Foreground Cleaning Using a Moment Expansion
• A study of 90 GHz dust emissivity on molecular cloud and filament scales
• Recent Results of Solid-State Spectroscopy
• An ALMA-HST Study of Millimeter Dust Emission and Star Clusters
• From small dust to micron-sized aggregates: the influence of structure and composition on the dust optical properties
• GalaxyGenius: Mock galaxy image generator for various telescopes from hydrodynamical simulations
• Assessment of Models of Galactic Thermal Dust Emission Using COBE/FIRAS and COBE/DIRBE Observations
• Estimation of high-resolution dust column density maps: Empirical model fits
• Far-infrared to centimeter emission of very nearby galaxies with archival data
• Galactic cold cores II. Herschel study of the extended dust emission around the first Planck detections
• Modeling Long-Wavelength Amorphous Dust Emission Based on the Physically Motivated Soft-Potential Model