Dust in the Local Group
Abstract
How dust absorbs and scatters starlight as a function of wavelength (known as the interstellar extinction curve) is crucial for correcting for the effects of dust extinction in inferring the true luminosity and colors of reddened astrophysical objects. Together with the extinction spectral features, the extinction curve contains important information about the dust size distribution and composition. This review summarizes our current knowledge of the dust extinction of the Milky Way, three Local Group galaxies (i.e., the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and M31), and galaxies beyond the Local Group.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1507.06604,
title = {Dust in the Local Group},
author = {Aigen Li and Shu Wang and Jian Gao and B. W. Jiang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.06604},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
21 pages, 11 figures; invited review article published in "LESSONS FROM THE LOCAL GROUP -- A Conference in Honour of David Block and Bruce Elmegreen" eds. Freeman, K.C., Elmegreen, B.G., Block, D.L. & Woolway, M. (SPRINGER: NEW YORK), pp. 85-105