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If the background universe is observed through a significant amount of diffusely distributed foreground dust, then studies at optical wavelengths may be severely biased. Previous studies investigating effects of foreground dust on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Frank J. Masci

We present a census of neutral gas in the Milky Way disk and halo down to limiting column densities of $N$(HI)$\sim10^{14}$ cm$^{-2}$ using measurements of HI Lyman-series absorption from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE).…

We present Swift/Ultraviolet Optical Telescope (UVOT) integrated light photometry of the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) and the Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: A Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel (KINGFISH) samples of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Alexander Belles , Marjorie Decleir , William P. Bowman , Lea M. Z. Hagen , Caryl Gronwall , Michael H. Siegel

FUSE spectra of star-forming regions in nearby galaxies are compared to composite spectra of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs), binned by strength of Lyman alpha emission and by mid-UV luminosity. Several far-UV spectral features, including lines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 William C. Keel

Using star-forming galaxies sample in the nearby Universe (0.02<z<0.10) selected from the SDSS (DR7) and GALEX all-sky survey (GR5), we present a new empirical calibration for predicting dust extinction of galaxies from H-alpha-to-FUV flux…

We present an all-sky catalog of diffuse O VII and O VIII line intensities, extracted from archival XMM observations. The O VII and O VIII intensities are typically ~2-11 and <~3 ph/cm^2/s/sr (LU), respectively, although much brighter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 David B. Henley , Robin L. Shelton

We study two galaxy samples selected in ultraviolet (UV) and in far-infrared (FIR) for which the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) from the far UV (FUV) to the FIR are available. We compare the observed SEDs to modelled SEDs with several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Denis Burgarella , Veronique Buat , Jorge Iglesias-Paramo

We present synthetic far- and near-ultraviolet (FUV and NUV) maps of M31, both with and without dust reddening. These maps were constructed from spatially-resolved star formation histories (SFHs) derived from optical Hubble Space Telescope…

Template-fit approach is often used to separate the Galactic dust emission and the cosmic infrared background (CIB) anisotropies at low $\text{HI}$ column density regions with an underlying assumption that the gas and dust are tightly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-09 Srijita Sinha , Tuhin Ghosh , Erwan Allys , François Boulanger , Jean-Marc Delouis

We present the DustFilaments code, a full sky model for the millimeter Galactic emission of thermal dust. Our model, composed of millions of filaments that are imperfectly aligned with the magnetic field, is able to reproduce the main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Carlos Hervías-Caimapo , Kevin Huffenberger

We have studied the UV extinction properties along 30 Galactic sightlines using data from the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) archive that have never been previously examined. These distant (d > 1 kpc) sightlines were selected to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Geoffrey C. Clayton , Karl D. Gordon , Michael J. Wolff

We present the first observations of diffuse radiation in the far ultraviolet (1000 -- 1150 \AA) from the Large Magellanic Cloud based on observations made with the {\it Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer}. The fraction of the total…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Ananta C. Pradhan , Amit Pathak , Jayant Murthy

A 13x13 degree image of Balmer H-alpha emission at galactic latitude -65 degrees is presented. Sensitivity is limited in part by confusion: the peak-to-valley anisotropy of the H-alpha surface brightness is 0.2 Rayleighs on angular scales…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Peter R. McCullough

Aims. Our goal is to study the long-term mass-loss rate characteristics of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars through wind-wind and wind-interstellar medium interaction. Methods. Far-ultraviolet (FUV) images from the Galex survey are used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 V. Răstău , M. Mečina , F. Kerschbaum , H. Olofsson , M. Maercker , M. Drechsler , X. Strottner , L. Mulato

The Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission is conventionally modeled as the product of cosmic-ray interactions with the interstellar medium. However, the cumulative contribution of stellar atmospheres acting as hadronic interaction targets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Yanbo Wang , Zhenglong Wang , Rui Zhang , Yi Zhang

Diffuse Galactic light has been observed in the optical since the 1930s. We propose that, when observed in the optical with deep imaging surveys, it can be used as a tracer of the turbulent cascade in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 M. -A. Miville-Deschenes , P. -A. Duc , F. Marleau , J. -C. Cuillandre , P. Didelon , S. Gwyn , E. Karabal

We have mapped four regions of the southern Galactic plane at 31 GHz with the Cosmic Background Imager. From the maps, we have extracted the flux densities for six of the brightest \hii regions in the southern sky and compared them with…

Massive stellar clusters provide radiation ($\mathrm{\sim 10^7-10^8~L_{\odot}}$) and winds ($\mathrm{\sim 1000~km/s}$) that act to heat dust and shape their surrounding environment. In this paper, the Arched Filaments in the Galactic center…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 Matthew J. Hankins , Ryan M. Lau , Mark R. Morris , Terry L. Herter

Far-UV observations in and near the Hubble Deep Fields demonstrate that the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) can potentially obtain unique and precise measurements of the diffuse far-ultraviolet background. Although STIS is not…

The rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are important diagnostics of both accretion disk physics and their contribution to the metagalactic ionizing UV background. Though the mean AGN spectrum is well…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Evan M. Tilton , Matthew L. Stevans , J. Michael Shull , Charles W. Danforth