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Dust in AstroBEAR - Resources

The external dust-processing code PAPERBOATS which my internal processing routines are based on is introduced and described in Kirchschlager et al. 2019

The following publications are used as references for the various dust processing routines:

The drag consists of two terms: Collisional drag and plasma drag. Descriptions are available in Baines et al. 1965 and Draine & Salpeter 1979

for the gas atom ionisation see figure 1 in Kirchschlager et al. 2019 which shows the charge number of the atom as a function of the gas temperature calculated using CHIANTI
for the dust ionisation degree, we use the formalism described in Fry et al. 2018

Collisions between gas atoms and dust grains can result in the erosion of the grains (if collisional energy is above the threshold energy) or grain growth (if collisional energy is below the threshold energy). If gas and grains are moving with the same velocity, collisions occur due to the temperature-dependent Brownian motion of the gas in which case we use a Maxwell distribution for the relative velocity. If gas and dust move with different velocities we use a skewed Maxwellian instead.
The following papers were used as resources: Dwek & Arendt 1992, Tielens et al. 1994, Nozawa et al. 2006, Micelotta et al. 2016, Barlow 1978, Draine & Salpeter 1979, Bocchio et al. 2014, Shull 1978, Nozawa et al. 2006, Serra Diaz-Cano & Jones 2008

Collisions between grains can i) vaporise the grains ii) break the grains apart iii) grow the grains if they stick together
The equations are derived in section 4.5 of Kirchschlager et al. 2019
The following papers were used as resources: Bocchio et al. 2016, Borkowski & Dwek 1995, Hirashita & Yan 2009, Tielens et al. 1994, Jones et al. 1996, Dominik & Tielens 1997, [Blum et al. 2000], Yan et al. 2004

Derivation of equations are in the paper that was just submitted, will add once it's on the arxiv!
Penetration depth is calculated based on Bethe 1930 & Bloch 1933 (articles are in German)