Aims. We investigate and quantify the effects of the electron collisional heating of dust in a hot gas and compare this with photon heating by the interstellar radiation field. Methods. We compare the rate of energy absorption by dust due to electron collisional and photon heating as a function of the physical conditions of the gas and the ambient radiation field. We calculate the resulting dust spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for different environments.
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