DUNE: Dust depletion UNified method across cosmic time and Environments

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We present a novel method to characterize dust depletion, namely, the depletion of metals into dust grains.

• We used observed correlations among relative abundances combining a total of 17 metals in diverse galactic environments, including the Milky Way (MW), Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), and damped Lyman-$\alpha$ absorbers (DLAs) towards quasars and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).
• We only considered the relative abundances of metals that qualify as tracers of dust and we used all available dust tracers.
• We find linear correlations among all studied dust tracers in a multidimensional space, where each dimension corresponds to an individual dust tracer.