Abstract
The past century of interstellar dust has brought us from first ignoring it to finding that it plays an important role in the evolution of galaxies. Current observational results in our galaxy provide a complex physical and chemical evolutionary picture of interstellar dust starting with the formation of small refractory particles in stellar atmospheres to their modification in diffuse and molecular clouds and ultimately to their contribution to star forming regions. Observations of the properties of dust in very young galaxies will be an important probe of the rates of star formation in terms of the production and destruction of dust grains. Future observations of dust at high spectral and spatial resolution will provide detailed information on processes in collapsing clouds up to star formation. Space missions to comets in the next century will first study them in situ but ultimately will bring back pristine nucleus material which will contain the end product of the collapsing protosolar molecular cloud at the time of planet formation. If one of the current theories of the origin of life from comets is correct laboratory studies of comet dust grains immersed in water may give direct indications of prebiotic chemical evolution.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Allamandola, L.J. and Tielens, A.G.G.M. (eds.): 1989, Interstellar dust, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
Bless, R.C. and Savage, B.D.: 1970, IAU Symp. 36, 28.
Block, D.L.: 1996, in: D.L. Block and J.M. Greenberg (eds.), New Extragalactic Perspectives in the New South Africa, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
Bremer, M.N., Van der Werf, P.P., Röttgering, H.J.A., Carilli, C.L. (eds.): 1996, Cold gas at high redshifts, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
Briggs, R., Ertem, G., Ferris, J.P., Greenberg, J.M., McCain, P.J., Mendoza-Gómez, C.X. and Schutte, W.: 1992, Origin of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere 22, 287–307.
Bussoletti, E., Colangeli, L., Borghesi, A. and Orofino, V.: 1987, Tabulated extinction efficiencies for various types of submicron amorphous carbon grains in the wavelength range 1000 A-300 µm, Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser 70, 257–268.
Calzetti, D.: 1999a, in: Untraluminous galaxies: monsters or babies?, preprint 1341, STSCI
Calzetti D., et al.; 1999b, in: Building the galaxies: from the primordial universe to the present, Proc. XXXIVth Renncontres de Moriond.
Cayrel, P. and Schatzman, E.: 1954, Sur la polarisation interstellaire par des particules de graphite, Ann. Astrophys. 17, 555.
Crovisier, J.: 1999, in: J.M. Greenberg and A. Li (eds.), Formation and Evolution of Solids in Space, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 389.
Clerke, A.M.: 1903, Problems in astrophysics, London, Black, 567 pp.
Danielson, R.E., Woolf, N.J. and Gaustad, J.E.: 1965, Search for interstellar ice absorption in the infrared spectrum of mu Cephei, Astrophys. J 141, 116.
Davis, L. and Greenstein, J.: 1951, Polarization of starlight by aligned dust grains, Astrophys. J. 114, 206.
Dey, A., Van Breugel, W., Vacca, W. and Antonucci, R.: 1997, Astrophys. J. 490, 698.
d’Hendecourt, L., Jourdain de Muizon, M., Dartois, E., Breitfellner, M., Ehrenfreund, P., Benit, J.,Boulanger, F., Puget, J.L. and Hailing, H.J.: 1996, Astron. Astrophys., 315, L365.
Dufay, J.: 1957, Galactic nebulae and interstellar matter, New York, Philosophical Library.
Eales, S.A.: 1993, Nature 363, 140.
Engel, M.H. and Macko, S.A.: 1997, Nature 389, 265–268.
Fitzpatrick, E.L. and Massa, D.M.: 1986, Astrophys. J. 307, 286.
Gibb, E.L., Whittet, D.C., Schutte, W.A., et al.: 1999, submitted to Astrophys. J.
Gillett, F.C. and Forrest, W.J.: 1973, Astrophys. J. 179, L483.
Greenberg, J.M., Pedersen, N.E. and Pedersen, J.C.: 1961, J. Appl. Phys. 32, 233–242.
Greenberg, J.M.: 1971, Astron. Astrophys. 12, 240–249.
Greenberg, J.M., Yencha, A.J., Corbett, J.W. and Frisch, H.L.: 1972, Ultraviolet effects on the chemical composition and optical properties of interstellar grains, Mém. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liège, 6e série, tome III, 425–436.
Greenberg, J.M.: 1986, Nature 321, 385.
Greenberg, J.M. and Hage, J.J.: 1990, Astrophys, J. 361, 260–274.
Greenberg, J.M., Mendoza-Gómez, C.X., Pirroncllo, V. (eds.): 1993, The chemistry of life’s origins, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
Greenberg, J.M. (ed.): 1994, The cosmic dust connection, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
Greenberg, J.M., Mendoza-Gómez, C.X., Schutte, W.A., Gerakines, P.A. and de Groot, M.: 1995, Astrophys. J. Lett. 455, L177–L180.
Greenberg, J.M. and Li, A.: 1996, Astron. Astrophys. 309, 258–266.
Greenberg, J.M. and Li, A.: 1997, in: Okuda et al. (eds.), `Diffuse interstellar medium and the IRTS’, Astro. Soc. Pacific, 183–192.
Greenberg, J.M.: 1998, Astron. Astrophys. 330, 375–380.
Greenberg, J.M. and Li, A. (eds.): 1999, Formation and evolution of solids in space, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
Greenstein, J.L.: 1934, A determination of selective absorption based on the spectrophotometry of reddened B stars, Pub. Washburn Obs. 15, No. 5, 151.
Gustafson, B.A.S.: 1999, in: J.M. Greenberg and A. Li (eds.), Formation and evolution of solids in space, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 535.
Hage, J.I., Greenberg, J.M. and Wang, R.T.: 1991, Appl. Optics 30, 1141–1152.
Hall, J.S.: 1949, Science 109, 166.
Hiltner, W.A.: 1949, Science 109, 165.
Isaak, K., McMahon, R.G., Hills, R.W.E. and Wittington, S.: 1994, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 269, L28.
Kamijo, F.: 1963, Publ. Astron. Soc. Jpn 15, 440.
Kapteyn, J.C.: 1904, Astron. J. 24, 115.
Kapteyn, J.C.: 1922, Astrophys. J. 55, 302.
Kissel, J., 1999, in: J.M. Greenberg and A. Li (eds.), Formation and evolution of solids in space, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 427.
Koike, C., Hasegawa, H. and Manabe, A.: 1980, Extinction coefficients of amorphous carbon grains from 2100 A to 340 µm, Astrophys. Space Sci. 67, 495–502.
Krueger, F.R. and Kissel, J.: 1989, Origins of Life etc. 19, 87–93.
Li, A. and Greenberg, J.M.: 1997, Astron. Astrophvs. 323, 566–584.
Li, A. and Greenberg, J.M.: 1999, The distributed CO in Comet Halley, in: K. Altwegg et al. (eds.), Composition and Origin of Cometary Materials, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 6974.
Lindblad, B.: 1935, A condensation theory of meteoric matter and its cosmological significance, Nature 135, 133.
Mathis, J.S., Rumpl, W. and Nordsieck, K.H.: 1977, The size distribution of interstellar grains, Astrophvs. J. 217, 425–433.
Mathis, J.S.: 1996, Astrophys. J. 472, 463.
Mennella, V., Colangeli, L., Palumbo, P., Schutte, W.A. and Bussoletti, E.: 1996, Astrophys. J. 464, LI9I—LI94.
Mennella, V., Colangeli, L., Bussoletti, E., Palumbo, P. and Rotundi, A.: 1998, Astrophvs. J. 507, L177.
Nicolis, G. and Prigogine, I.: 1977. Self-organization in nonequilibrium systems, Wiley.
Oort, J.H. and van de Hulst, H.C.: 1946, Gas and smoke in interstellar space, Bull. Astron. Inst. Netherlands 10, 187.
Platt, J.R.: 1956, On the otpical properties of interstellar dust, Astrophys. J. 123, 486.
Rötgering, H.J.A., Best, P.N. and Lehnert, M.D. (eds.): 1999, The most distant radio galaxies, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Rosenbauer, H., Foselier, S.A., Ghielmetti, A., et al.: 1999, in: Advances in Space Research (COSPAR, 1998).
Schalén, C.: 1929, Astron. Nachr. 236, 249.
Schutte, W.A. and Greenberg, J.M.: 1997, Further evidence for the OCN-asssignment to the XCN band in astrophysical analogs, Astron. Astrophvs. 317, L43—L46.
Schutte, W.A.: 1999, in: J.M. Greenberg and A. Li (eds.), Formation and Evolution of Solids in Space, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 177.
Shapley, H. and Curtis, H.D.: 1921, Bull. Nat. Res. Council 2, 217.
Spitzer, L. Jr.: 1978, Physical processes in the interstellar medium, New York, Wiley
Stebbins, J., Huffer, C.M. and Whitford, A.E.: 1939, Astrophvs. J. 90, 209.
Stechcr, T.P.: 1965, Interstellar extinction in the ultraviolet, Astrophvs. J. 142, 1683.
Stecher, T.P. and Donn, B.: 1965, On graphite and interstellar extinction, Astrophvs. J. 142, 1681-1682.
Tinbergen, J., Greenberg, J.M. and De Jager, C.: 1981, Astron. Astrophvs. 95, 215–220.
Trumpler, R.J.: 1930, Preliminary results on the distances, dimensions and space distribution of open star clyusters, Lick Obs. Bull. XIV, 154.
van de Hulst, H.C.: 1949, The solid particles in interstellar space, Rech. Astron. Obs. Utrecht 11, pt 2.
van de Hulst, H.C.: 1957, Light scattering by small particles, Wiley.
van Dishoeck, E.F.: 1999, in: J.M. Greenberg and A. Li (eds.), Formation and evolution of solids in space, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. 91–121.
Verdant, M. and Schwehm, G.H.: 1998. The International Rosetta Mission, ESA bulletin 93.
Waters, L.B.F.M., Moister, F.J., de Jong, T., et al.; 1996, Astron. Astrophvs. 315, L36.
Whitford, A.E.: 1958, The law of interstellar reddening. Astron. J. 63, 201.
Whitford, A.E.: 1948, An extension of the interstellar absorption curve, Astrophys. J. 107, 102.
Whittet, D.: 1992, Dust in the galactic enviroment, in: The Graduate Series in Astronomy, Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, Bristol.
Whittet, D.C.B., Schutte, W.A., Tielens, A.G.G.M., et al.; 1996, Astron. Astrophys. 33, L357–L360.
Woolf, N.J.: 1973, in: J.M. Greenberg and H.C. van de Hulst (eds.), in: Interstellar dust and related topics, p. 485.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2000 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Greenberg, J.M., Shen, C. (2000). Cosmic Dust in The 21st Century. In: Block, D.L., Puerari, I., Stockton, A., Ferreira, D. (eds) Toward a New Millennium in Galaxy Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4114-7_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4114-7_3
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-94-010-5801-8
Online ISBN: 978-94-011-4114-7
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive