Interstellar Dust (SED or Polarization)

• Background Physics
  1. General : You need to read through this review artical Hildebrand (1983).
  2. Dust Polarization : You need to read through this review artical Hildebrand (2000).
• Some Minimum Knowledge about Planet-Formation
  1. Please read Kokubo and Ida (1998) and Hansen and Murray (2013).
• Related to Our Research
  1. SED Analysis :
     1. Please read Liu (2019) and the introduction section of Liu et al. (2021) to be up-to-date.
     2. If you are performing SED fittings to Class II disks, Beckwith et al. (1990), Beckwith and Sargent (1991), and Dullemond et al. (2018) are very important references.
     3. If you are are performing SED fittings to Class 0/I objects, Li et al. (2017), Galvan-Madrid et al. (2018), Zamponi et al. (2021), and Xu (2022) would be very important references.
     4. If you are working on wide-field bolometric imaging for molecular clouds, Lin et al. (2016), Lin et al. (2017), and Lin et al. (2019) are the most advanced journal publications. But talk to us for some latest development.
  2. Polarization Mechanism : For our recent investigation about (sub)millimeter dichroic extinction, please read Liu et al. (2018), Ko et al. (2020), and Liu (2021). For polarized dust self-scattering, please read Kataoka et al. (2016) and references therein.
  3. After reading the necessary ones for you mentioned above : Come back to read the overviews of Birnstiel et al. (2016) and Testi et al. (2014) to obtain the context of the developments in this area, but keep in mind that not all of the information in those Pre-2019 publications are up to date. To be more updated, reading Okuzumi et a. (2019) is important.
• Interferometry
  1. Textbook : It is free to download the textbooks Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy II and Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy online. You need to read through at least the first 5 chapters.
  2. Getting hand dirty : It is good to walk through some of these CASA Guides. The example with the observations on the TW Hya protoplanetary disk may be the easiest to begin with. If you work on polarization data, you will need to walk through the case of 3C286. If you need to calibrate the JVLA data yourself, go through cases at here.
  3. SMA : The official package for data calibration is MIR IDL although there is some discussion to switch over to CASA in the future.
  4. Miriad Software Package : We use it to image the calibrated SMA data or to perform polarization calibration for the SMA data. I found this package to be handy on many occasions and have been using it routinely. I am using a binary distribution that was downloaded from here. I recommend using the latest version compiled for CARMA. A documentation for individual Miriad tasks can be found here.
• Potentially Useful Packages for SED Analysis
  1. Galario : Please check Tazzari et al. (2018) and this Github page.
  2. Frankenstein : Please check Jenning et al. (2020) and this Github page.
  3. synthesizer : A very useful wrapper to perform MCRT radiative transfer modeling for dust polarization and then create synthetic ALMA or JVLA observations. Please check this Github
  4. PyRaTE : A code to estimate the Goldreich-Kylafis effect Tritsis and Kylafis (2023)
• **Useful online material
  1. NASA PAH Database : here
  2. DSHARP opacity : here
  3. DIANNA opacity : here