Dust production in Supernovae

TL;DR

This paper reviews current understanding of dust formation in supernovae, combining observational data and theoretical models to better quantify dust production and its implications for galaxy evolution.

Contribution

It synthesizes recent observational and theoretical insights on supernova dust formation, highlighting current knowledge gaps and future research directions.

Findings

Dust forms a few hundred days after supernova explosions.

Supernovae are significant but not fully quantified dust producers.

Theoretical models predict various dust synthesis outcomes.

Abstract

Supernovae have long been proposed to be efficient dust producers in galaxies. Observations in the mid-infrared indicate that dust forms a few hundred days after the stellar explosion. Yet, the chemical type and the amount of dust produced by supernovae are not well quantified. In this review, we summarise our current knowledge of dust formation derived from observations of supernovae, present the various theoretical models on dust synthesis and their predictions, and discuss these results in the context of the most recent observations of dust in supernova remnants.