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Recent JWST observations reveal massive, UV-bright galaxies at $z > 10$ with little apparent dust attenuation, whereas ALMA detections at $z \simeq 7$ show similarly massive systems that are already dust-rich and IR-luminous. This raises a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-24 Laura Sommovigo , Lachlan Lancaster , Shyam H. Menon , Joseph A. O'Leary , Rachel S. Somerville , Greg L. Bryan

We aim to constrain the dust mass and grain sizes in the interaction regions between the stellar winds and the ISM around asymptotic giant branch stars. By describing the dust in these regions, we aim to shed light on the role of low mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 M. Maercker , T. Khouri , M. Mecina , E. De Beck

Galactic interstellar dust has a profound impact not only on our observations of objects throughout the Universe, but also on the morphology, star formation, and chemical evolution of the Galaxy. The advent of massive imaging and…

The wide range of UV extinction properties in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) probably traces the effects of star formation on interstellar dust. The Swift UVOT, with its three UV filters (centred at 1800, 2200 and 2500 A respectively) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Blustin , W. B. Landsman , M. Still , S. R. Rosen , M. J. Page , P. W. A. Roming

Dust is a key component of galaxies, but its properties during the earliest eras of structure formation remain elusive. Here we present a simple semi-analytic model of the dust distribution in galaxies at $z \gtrsim 5$. We calibrate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Roy J. Zhao , Steven R. Furlanetto

Employing the Maximum Entropy Method algorithm, we fit interstellar extinction measurements which span the wavelength range 0.125-3 micron. We present a uniform set of MEM model fits, all using the same grain materials, optical constants…

We investigate the composition and shape distribution of silicate dust grains in the interstellar medium. The effect of the amount of magnesium in the silicate lattice is studied. We fit the spectral shape of the interstellar 10 mu…

The low density interstellar medium (ISM) close to the Sun and inside of the heliosphere provides a unique laboratory for studying interstellar dust grains. Grain characteristics in the nearby ISM are obtained from observations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Priscilla C. Frisch , Jonathan D. Slavin

(Abridged) We present far-infrared (FIR) photometry at 150 micron and 205 micron of eight low-redshift starburst galaxies obtained with the ISO Photometer. Five of the eight galaxies are detected in both wavebands and these data are used,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 D. Calzetti , L. Armus , R. C. Bohlin , A. L. Kinney , J. Koornneef , T. Storchi-Bergmann

Aims. We use different tracers, such as Ha, ultraviolet (UV), and infrared (IR) emissions at various wavelengths, to study the dust and star-formation (SF) conditions throughout the disk of M33. Methods. We derive the radial distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Verley , E. Corbelli , C. Giovanardi , L. K. Hunt

It is well known that the extinction properties along lines of sight to Type Ia supernovae are described by steep extinction curves with unusually low total-to-selective extinction ratios of Rv = 1.0-2.0. In order to reveal the properties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 Takaya Nozawa

Absorption lines in the spectra of distant quasars whose sightlines pass through foreground galaxies provide a valuable tool to probe the dust and gas compositions of the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies. The first evidence of silicate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-05-05 Monique C. Aller , Varsha P. Kulkarni , Donald G. York , Daniel E. Welty , Giovanni Vladilo , Debopam Som

We present 8-13 micron imaging and spectroscopy of 9 type 1 and 10 type 2 AGN obtained with the VLT/VISIR instrument at spatial resolution <100 pc. The emission from the host galaxy sources is resolved out in most cases. The silicate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. F. Hoenig , M. Kishimoto , P. Gandhi , A. Smette , D. Asmus , W. Duschl , M. Polletta , G. Weigelt

We discuss the rest-frame UV emission between 5< z < 7 from the MareNostrum High-z Universe, a SPH simulation done with more than 2 billion particles. Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation generally overpredict the UV restframe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. E. Forero-Romero , G. Yepes , S. Gottloeber , S. R. Knollmann , A. Khalatyan , A. J. Cuesta , F. Prada

We present an independent estimate of the interstellar extinction law for the Spitzer IRAC bands as well as a first attempt at extending the law to the 24micron MIPS band. The source data for these measurements are observations of five…

We investigate the abundance and properties (especially, grain size) of dust in galaxy halos using available observational data in the literature. There are two major sets of data. One is (i) the reddening curves at redshifts $z\sim 1$ and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-28 Hiroyuki Hirashita , Chih-Yu Lin

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…

We investigate the dust growth in oxygen-rich stellar outflows for a set of nine well-observed massive supergiants with optically thin dust shells. Models of the infrared emission from their circumstellar dust shells are compared to their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 Hans-Peter Gail , Akemi Tamanai , Annemarie Pucci , Ralf Dohmen

What is the expected infrared output of elliptical galaxies? Here we report the latest findings obtained in this high time resolution (~10 years) and high spatial resolution (2.5 parsec at center) study. We add a set of grain physics to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-19 Zhaoming Gan , Brandon S. Hensley , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Luca Ciotti , David Schiminovich , Silvia Pellegrini

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