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Martin Glatzle
cosmic_dustbox
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Evaluating the Weingartner & Draine 2001 size distributions for carbonaceous
and silicate grains for R
\_
V=3.1 and b
\_
C=6.0e-5 in case 'A' at a range of
grain sizes between 1 nm and 1
$
\m
u$
:
grain sizes between 1 nm and 1
micron
:
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>>> import astropy.units as u
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To introduce the objects central to how we describe cosmic dust, assume we are
interested in the dust in a certain environment. Assume then that we cut some
volume out of said environment. The volume should, of course, be representative
the environment. So if we are interested in the dust in the Solar System as a
whole, a cubic meter of space somewhere between Earth and Mars will be too
of the environment. So if we are interested in the dust in the Solar System as
a
whole, a cubic meter of space somewhere between Earth and Mars will be too
small and a box the size of the Milky Way will be too large. Suppose we
collected all of the dust grains contained in this volume. We would like to be
able to describe this collection with a reasonable degree of accuracy without
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This approach can be refined as needed by simply splitting grain species. In
the extreme, we would have one species per grain and each species would have a
delta-peak size distribution and we would be back to the overwhelming diversity
we started out from.
The approach also sounds like it can almost directly be
translated into software. The size distribution class in
`sdist.py`
is already
in a somewhat
advanced state so feel free to check it out.
we started out from.
With this package, we aim to translate the approach to
software. The size distribution class in
`sdist.py`
is already in a somewhat
advanced state so feel free to check it out.
## Literature
"Physics of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium" by B. Draine provides
a good introduction (and
more than that) to cosmic dust.
"Physics of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium" by B. Draine provides
a
good introduction (and much
more than that) to cosmic dust.
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