Why don't clumps of cirrus dust gravitationally collapse?

TL;DR

This paper challenges the standard view of cirrus dust clouds by proposing they are primordial gas planet clumps, explaining their stability against gravitational collapse and collision-based planet formation.

Contribution

It introduces a novel interpretation of Herschel-Planck dust clouds as dark matter proto-globular-star-clusters of primordial gas planets.

Findings

Dust clouds are better explained as primordial gas planet clumps.

PAH macromolecules dominate cirrus dust composition.

These clumps do not collapse or stick together as traditional dust.

Abstract

We consider the Herschel-Planck infrared observations of presumed condensations of interstellar material at a measured temperature of approximately 14 K (Juvela et al., 2012), the triple point temperature of hydrogen. The standard picture is challenged that the material is cirrus-like clouds of ceramic dust responsible for Halo extinction of cosmological sources (Finkbeiner, Davis, and Schlegel 1999). Why would such dust clouds not collapse gravitationally to a point on a gravitational free-fall time scale of $10^8$ years? Why do the particles not collide and stick together, as is fundamental to the theory of planet formation (Blum 2004; Blum and Wurm, 2008) in pre-solar accretion discs? Evidence from 3.3 $\mu$m and UIB emissions as well as ERE (extended red emission) data point to the dominance of PAH-type macromolecules for cirrus dust, but such fractal dust will not spin in the manner of rigid grains (Draine & Lazarian, 1998). IRAS dust clouds examined by Herschel-Planck are easily understood as dark matter Proto-Globular-star-Cluster (PGC) clumps of primordial gas planets, as predicted by Gibson (1996) and observed by Schild (1996).