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The observed UV continuum slope of star forming galaxies is strongly affected by the presence of dust. Its observation is then a potentially valuable diagnostic of dust attenuation, particularly at high-redshift where other diagnostics are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Stephen M. Wilkins , Andrew Bunker , William Coulton , Rupert Croft , Tiziana Di Matteo , Nishikanta Khandai , Yu Feng

We investigate the environmental dependence of galaxy population properties in a complete volume-limited sample of 91566 galaxies in the redshift range 0.05 <= z <= 0.095 and with M_r <= -20.0, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Sorrentino , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , A. Rifatto

Rich galaxy clusters in the local Universe show a large population of S0 galaxies (~ 40%) of all luminous galaxies). With increasing redshift the fraction of this S0 galaxy population is observed to strongly decrease (e.g. by a factor ~2-3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Bicker , U. Fritze - v. Alvensleben , K. J. Fricke

We use observed optical to near infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 266 galaxies in the COSMOS survey to derive the wavelength dependence of the dust attenuation at high redshift. All of the galaxies have spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Nick Scoville , Andreas Faisst , Peter Capak , Yuko Kakazu , Gongjie Li , Charles Steinhardt

We investigate colors and mass-to-light ratios ($M/L$s) of the bulges and disks for 28 nearby spiral galaxies with various morphological types of Sab to Scd, using images in optical and near-infrared ($V$, $I$, and $J$) bands and published…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Akira Yoshino , Takashi Ichikawa

Gravitational lensing of an optical QSO by a spiral galaxy is often counteracted by dust obscuration, since the line-of-sight to the QSO passes close to the center of the galactic disk. The dust in the lens is likely to be correlated with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Rosalba Perna , Abraham Loeb , Matthias Bartelmann

In order to study the effects of internal extinction in spiral galaxies we search for correlations of near infrared (NIR) photometric parameters with inclination. We use data from the 2 Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) Extended Source Catalog…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Karen L. Masters , Riccardo Giovanelli , Martha P. Haynes

We present results of optical broad-band and narrow-band Halpha observations of a sample of forty nearby early-type galaxies. The majority of sample galaxies are known to have dust in various forms viz. dust lanes, nuclear dust and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Samridhi Kulkarni , D. K. Sahu , Laxmikant Chaware , N. K. Chakradhari , S. K. Pandey

We analyse V and H-band surface photometry of a sample of 18 Sb-Sd galaxies. Combining high resolution HST images with ground-based NIR observations, we extract photometric profiles, which cover the whole disk and provide the highest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Katia Ganda , Reynier Peletier , Marc Balcells , Jesus Falcon-Barroso

We use a combination of deep optical (gri) and near-infrared (H) photometry to study the radially-resolved colours of a broad sample of 300 Virgo cluster galaxies. For most galaxy types, we find that the median g-H colour gradient is either…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Joel C. Roediger , Stephane Courteau , Michael McDonald , Lauren A. MacArthur

We have analyzed the radial scales, central surface brightnesses, and colors of 404 disks of various types of galaxies. The central surface brightness mu0 and linear disk scale length h vary smoothly along the Hubble sequence of galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-04 Alexander S. Gusev , Svetlana A. Guslyakova , Maria S. Khramtsova

The inclination of galaxies induces both reddening and extinction to their observed spectral energy distribution, which in turn impact the derived properties of the galaxies. Here we report a significant dependence of the error in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ching-Wa Yip , Alex S. Szalay , Samuel Carliles , Tamas Budavari

The V-K colours along the minor axes of spiral galaxies typically change from red to blue with increasing distance, giving the impression that the near side is systematically screened by dust. Such a preferred orientation for dust screens…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bruce G. Elmegreen , David Block

There is now ample evidence that the interstellar thick disks of spiral galaxies are dusty. Although the majority of extraplanar gas in the first few kiloparsecs above the plane of a spiral galaxy is matter that has been expelled from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Christopher Howk

We have obtained surface photometry in U, B, R and I for a complete optically selected sample of 45 early-type spiral galaxies, to investigate the colors and color gradients of spiral bulges. Color profiles in U-R, B-R, U-B and R-I have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 M. Balcells , R. F. Peletier

We have used a large sample of low-inclination spiral galaxies with radially-resolved optical and near-infrared photometry to investigate trends in star formation history with radius as a function of galaxy structural parameters. A maximum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 Eric F. Bell , Roelof S. de Jong

When a galaxy falls into a cluster, its outermost parts are the most affected by the environment. In this paper, we are interested in studying the influence of a dense environment on different galaxy's components to better understand how…

We have explored the emission line trends in the integrated spectra of normal spiral galaxies of the Nearby Field Galaxy Survey, in order to investigate the relationships between dust extinction, metallicity and some macroscopic properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Grazyna Stasinska , Laerte Sodre

We investigate dust attenuation and its dependence on viewing angle for 308 star-forming galaxies at $1.3\leq z\leq2.6$ from the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) survey. We divide galaxies with a detected H$\alpha$ emission line and…

[Abridged] We present a new approach to investigate the content and spatial distribution of dust in structurally unresolved star-forming galaxies from the observed dependence of integrated spectral properties on galaxy inclination. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jacopo Chevallard , Stephane Charlot , Benjamin Wandelt , Vivienne Wild