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We have used data from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer to study the different components of the diffuse ultraviolet background in the region between the Galactic latitudes 70-80 degree. We find an offset at zero dust column density (E(B - V)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-12 M. S. Akshaya , Jayant Murthy , S. Ravichandran , R. C. Henry , James Overduin

New low-resolution UV spectra of a sample of reddened OB stars in M31 were obtained with HST/STIS to study the wavelength dependence of interstellar extinction and the nature of the underlying dust grain populations. Extinction curves were…

Rest-frame far-ultraviolet (FUV) luminosities form the `backbone' of our understanding of star formation at all cosmic epochs. FUV luminosities are typically corrected for dust by assuming that extinction indicators which have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eric F. Bell

This study employs stellar parameters from spectroscopic surveys and Zhang et al. based on Gaia XP spectra, along with photometric data from GALEX, UVOT, and Gaia, to obtain extensive ultraviolet color excess information for the relevant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Dongliang Yang , Mingxu Sun , Biwei Jiang , Wenyuan Cui , Ruoyi Zhang , Luyao Shi , Jiachen Wei

The characterisation of the extinction curve in the near infrared (NIR) is fundamental to analyse the structure and stellar population of the Galactic centre (GC), whose analysis is hampered by the extreme interstellar extinction ($A_V\sim…

We use the far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV) images of M83 obtained by GALEX to compute the radial profile of the UV spectral slope in the star forming disk. We briefly present a model of its chemical evolution which allows us to obtain…

I review the basic properties of interstellar extinction in the Milky Way galaxy, focusing primarily on the wavelength dependence within the IR through UV spectral region. My primary goal is to review the evidence supporting the idea that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward L. Fitzpatrick

Connecting the observed rest-ultraviolet (UV) luminosities of high-$z$ galaxies to their intrinsic luminosities (and thus star formation rates) requires correcting for the presence of dust. We bypass a common dust-correction approach that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-02 Jordan Mirocha , Charlotte Mason , Daniel P. Stark

This paper uses radial colour profiles to infer the distributions of dust, gas and star formation in z=0.4-1.4 star-forming main sequence galaxies. We start with the standard UVJ-based method to estimate dust extinction and specific star…

The detailed study of the Galactic bulge stellar population necessarily requires an accurate representation of the interstellar extinction particularly toward the Galactic plane and center, where the severe and differential reddening is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-04 F. Surot , E. Valenti , O. A. Gonzalez , M. Zoccali , E. Sökmen , S. L. Hidalgo , D. Minniti

We identified the z~2 Lyman break galaxies using deep HST ultraviolet (F275W/F336W) imaging of Abell 1689. Because of the imaging depth and the large magnification provided by the cluster, we detect galaxies 100x fainter (-19.5< M_1500…

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

The far-ultraviolet is the most rapidly evolving portion of the spectrum in both very young galaxies and very old galaxies. The ``UV upturn'' in the spectra of elliptical galaxies shortward of 2000 Angstroms offers a promising probe of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Henry C. Ferguson , Thomas M. Brown

The dust extinction curves toward individual sight lines in M33 are derived for the first time with a sample of reddened O-type and B-type supergiants obtained from the LGGS. The observed photometric data are obtained from the LGGS, PS1…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 Yuxi Wang , Jian Gao , Yi Ren , Bingqiu Chen

Fundamental properties of the extinction curve, like the slope in the rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) and the presence/absence of a broad absorption excess centred at 2175 A (the UV bump), are investigated for a sample of 108 massive,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Noll , D. Pierini , M. Pannella , S. Savaglio

We present a new two-dimensional (2D) map of total Galactic extinction, $A_\mathrm{V}$, across the entire dust half-layer from the Sun to extragalactic space for Galactic latitudes $|b|>13$ deg, as well as a three-dimensional (3D) map of…

We report optical extinction properties of dust for a sample of 26 early-type galaxies based on the analysis of their multicolour CCD observations. The wavelength dependence of dust extinction for these galaxies is determined and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. K. Patil , S. K. Pandey , D. K. Sahu , A. K. Kembhavi

We use 1837 DA white dwarfs with high signal to noise ratio spectra and Gaia parallaxes to verify the absolute calibration and extinction coefficients for the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX). We use white dwarfs within 100 pc to verify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Renae E. Wall , Mukremin Kilic , P. Bergeron , B. Rolland , C. Genest-Beaulieu , A. Gianninas

An improved high-resolution and deep A$_{Ks}$ foreground dust extinction map is presented for the Galactic disk area within $295^{\circ} \lesssim l \lesssim 350^{\circ}$, $-1.0^{\circ} \lesssim b \lesssim +1.0^{\circ}$. At some longitudes…

We have reanalyzed the Large Magellanic Cloud's (LMC) ultraviolet (UV) extinction using data from the IUE final archive. Our new analysis takes advantage of the improved signal--to--noise of the IUE NEWSIPS reduction, the exclusion of stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. A. Misselt , Geoffrey C. Clayton , Karl D. Gordon