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Fig. 1. | Earth, Planets and Space

Fig. 1.

From: Dust formation history of galaxies: A critical role of metallicity* for the dust mass growth by accreting materials in the interstellar medium

Fig. 1.

Time evolution of each dust production/destruction rate (terms in the right-hand side of Eq. (4)) with Mtot = 1010 M⊙ and η = 1.00. The star-formation timescales are set to be 0.5 Gyr (top-left panel), 5 Gyr (top-right panel) and 50 Gyr (bottom panel). Solid, dotted, dashed and dot-dashed lines represent the rates of dust injection into stars, dust ejection by stars, dust destruction by SN shocks and dust mass growth in a galaxy, respectively.

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