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We investigate the evolution of extinction curves in galaxies based on our evolution model of grain size distribution. In this model, we considered various processes: dust formation by SNe II and AGB stars, dust destruction by SN shocks in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Ryosuke S. Asano , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Takaya Nozawa

We present a new version of our analytical model of the spatial interstellar extinction variations within the nearest kiloparsec. This model treats the 3D dust distribution as a superposition of three overlapping layers: (1) the layer along…

Extinction maps are essential for tracing interstellar dust and enabling accurate stellar population studies in galaxies. Here, a high-resolution extinction distribution of nearby galaxy M33 is constructed by fitting multiband color indexes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-09 Yuxi Wang , Yi Ren , Jian Gao , Bingqiu Chen , Ying Li

CONTEXT: The Virgo direction has been observed at many wavelengths in the recent years, in particular in the ultraviolet with GALEX. The far ultraviolet (FUV) diffuse light detected by GALEX bears interesting information on the large scale…

Interstellar extinction towards the Galactic Center is large and significantly differential. Its reddening and dimming effects in red clump stars in the Galactic Bulge can be exploited to better constrain the extinction law towards the…

While it is well recognized that both the Galactic interstellar extinction curves and the gas-phase abundances of dust-forming elements exhibit considerable variations from one sight line to another, as yet most of the dust extinction…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 W. B. Zuo , Aigen Li , Gang Zhao

Based on the accurate color excess $E_{\rm G_{BP},G_{RP}}$ of more than 4 million stars and $E_{\rm NUV,G_{BP}}$ of more than 1 million stars from \citet{2021ApJS..254...38S}, the distance and the extinction of the molecular clouds in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Mingxu Sun , Biwei Jiang , He Zhao , Yi Ren

We analyze the multi-wavelength photometric and spectroscopic data of 12 ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) at z ~ 1 and compare them with models of stars and dust in order to study the extinction law and star formation in young…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 T. Shimizu , K. Kawara , H. Sameshima , N. Ienaka , T. Nozawa , T. Kozasa

The gas-to-dust ratio of reddened stars in the Milky Way (MW), the Magellanic Clouds, and in general is usually expressed as a linear relation between the hydrogen column density, N(H), and the reddening, E(B-V), or extinction in the V band…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-21 Robert E. Butler , Samir Salim

I explore models of the dust-scattered component of the Cosmic Ultraviolet Background (CUVB) at the North Galactic Pole (NGP) in order to develop a framework for calculating the dust-scattered light as a function of the optical depths. As…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jayant Murthy

The acquisition of deep Near-IR imaging with Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope has provided the opportunity to study the very-high redshift Universe. For galaxies up to $z\approx 7.7$ sufficient wavelength coverage exists to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Stephen M. Wilkins , Andrew J. Bunker , Elizabeth Stanway , Silvio Lorenzoni , Joseph Caruana

The color of galaxies is a fundamental property, easily measured, that constrains models of galaxies and their evolution. Dust attenuation and star formation history (SFH) are the dominant factors affecting the color of galaxies. Here we…

[Abridged] We compare H-alpha, ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) indicators of star formation rate (SFR) for a sample of z = 0.84 galaxies from the High-z Emission Line Survey (HiZELS). Using multi-wavelength diagnostics, we estimate that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Timothy Garn , David Sobral , Philip N. Best , James E. Geach , Ian Smail , Michele Cirasuolo , Gavin B. Dalton , James S. Dunlop , Ross J. McLure , Duncan Farrah

Understanding the properties and physical mechanisms that shape dust attenuation curves in galaxies is one of the fundamental questions of extragalactic astrophysics, with a great practical significance for deriving the physical properties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-11 Samir Salim , Desika Narayanan

We investigate how the typical dust extinction of H-alpha luminosity from a star-forming galaxy depends upon star formation rate (SFR), metallicity and stellar mass independently, using a sample of ~90,000 galaxies from Data Release 7 of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Timothy Garn , Philip Best

In Khadka et al. (2023), a sample of X-ray-detected reverberation-mapped quasars was presented and applied for the comparison of cosmological constraints inferred using two well-established relations in AGN -- the X-ray/UV luminosity…

We have used the first matched set of GALEX and SDSS data to investigate the properties of a sample of 74 nearby galaxies with far-ultraviolet luminosities chosen to overlap the luminosity range of typical high-z Lyman Break Galaxies…

We critique the method of constructing extinction curves of lensing galaxies using multiply imaged QSOs. If one of the two QSO images is lightly reddened or if the dust along both sightlines has the same properties then the method works…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christina McGough , Geoffrey C. Clayton , Karl D. Gordon , Michael J. Wolff

We present surface photometry of a sample of 52 galaxies from the GALEX and 2MASS data archives, these include 32 normal elliptical galaxies, 10 ellipticals with weak Liner or other nuclear activity, and 10 star forming ellipticals or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 David Carter , Sally Pass , Joseph Kennedy , Arna M. Karick , Russell J. Smith

We measure galaxy structural properties and colour gradients using HST images to trace the evolution of galaxy components. We jointly fit 3D bulge and disk models to 2505 galaxies in GOODS-South across seven bands (bvizYJH) to IAB = 25.5,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-14 N. Welikala , L. Miller , A. N. Taylor , G. Congedo