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Recent observations have indicated the existence of dust in high-redshift galaxies, however, the dust properties in them are still unknown. Here we present theoretical constraints on dust properties in Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) at z=3 by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Hidenobu Yajima , Kentaro Nagamine , Robert Thompson , Jun-Hwan Choi

The presence of dust in starburst galaxies complicates the study of their stellar populations as the dust's effects are similar to those associated with changes in the galaxies' stellar age and metallicity. This degeneracy can be overcome…

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

When measuring star formation rates using ultraviolet light, correcting for dust extinction is a critical step. However, with the variety of dust extinction curves to choose from, the extinction correction is quite uncertain. Here, we use…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-28 Lea M. Z. Hagen , Michael H. Siegel , Caryl A. Gronwall , Erik A. Hoversten , Angelica Vargas , Stefan Immler

I review the characteristics of high redshift galaxies, with particular attention to the effects of dust obscuration on the observed light. Galaxies at redshift z~1 and at z>2 are discussed separately, as the accessible information for each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniela Calzetti

Hubble Space Telescope observations with Wide Field Camera 3/IR reveal that galaxies at z~7 have very blue ultraviolet (UV) colors, consistent with these systems being dominated by young stellar populations with moderate or little…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Taysun Kimm , Renyue Cen

I review the effects of dust obscuration in galaxies at both low and high redshifts, and briefly discuss a method to remove dust reddening from the emerging light of star-forming galaxies. I also analyze the evolution of the dust opacity in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniela Calzetti

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) shows a large variation in ultraviolet (UV) dust extinction curves, ranging from Milky Way-like (MW) to significantly steeper curves with no detectable 2175 A bump. This result is based on a sample of only…

Interstellar dust grains efficiently absorb and scatter UV and optical radiation in galaxies, and therefore can significantly affect the apparent structure of spiral galaxies. We discuss the effect of dust attenuation on the observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Maarten Baes , Dimitri Gadotti , Joris Verstappen , Ilse De Looze , Jacopo Fritz , Edgardo Vidal Perez , Marko Stalevski

This paper summarizes the evidence of the ultraviolet properties of dust grains found in starburst galaxies. Observations of starburst galaxies clearly show that the 2175 A feature is weak or absent. This can be the result of radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Karl D. Gordon

Using the First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations (${\rm F{\small LARES}}$), a suite of hydrodynamical simulations we explore the consequences of a realistic model for star--dust geometry on the observed properties of galaxies. We…

Dust extinction law is crucial to recover the intrinsic energy distribution of celestial objects and infer the characteristics of interstellar dust. Based on the traditional pair method, an improved pair method is proposed to model the dust…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Yuxi Wang , Jian Gao , Yi Ren , Jun Li

As a science verification study of the newly released AKARI/FIS Faint Source Catalog ver.1, this paper discusses the different levels of dust attenuation toward stellar light and nebular emission lines within local star-forming galaxies at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Yusei Koyama , Rhythm Shimakawa , Issei Yamamura , Tadayuki Kodama , Masao Hayashi

We present and discuss the results of new multiple-scattering radiative transfer calculations for three representative types of galactic environments, filled with either homogeneous or two-phase clumpy dust distributions. Extinction and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-05 Adolf N. Witt , Karl D. Gordon

We present dust attenuation properties of spectroscopically confirmed star forming galaxies on the main sequence at a redshift of ~4.4-5.8. Our analyses are based on the far infrared continuum observations of 118 galaxies at rest-frame…

The nature of dust in distant galaxies is not well understood, and until recently few direct dust measurements have been possible. We investigate dust in distant star-forming galaxies using near-infrared grism spectra of the 3D-HST survey…

We present a new model to compute the effects of dust on the integrated spectral properties of galaxies, based on an idealized prescription of the main features of the interstellar medium (ISM). The model includes the ionization of HII…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Charlot , S. Michael Fall

We have studied a sample of 809 Mg II absorption systems with 1.0 < z_abs < 1.86 in the spectra of SDSS QSOs, with the aim of understanding the nature and abundance of the dust and the chemical abundances in the intervening absorbers.…

We analyze the distribution of rest-frame U-V and V-J colors for star-forming galaxies at 0.5 < z < 2.5. Using stellar population synthesis, stochastic star formation histories, and a simple prescription for the dust attenuation that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Leah Zuckerman , Sirio Belli , Joel Leja , Sandro Tacchella

We compile a sample of about 157,000 spaxels from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at the Apache Point Observatory survey to derive the average dust attenuation curve for subgalactic star-forming regions of local star-forming galaxies (SFGs) in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-05 Berzaf B. Teklu , Zesen Lin , Xu Kong , Enci Wang , Yulong Gao , Qing Liu , Ning Hu , Haiyang Liu

We examine the three-dimensional structure and dust extinction properties in a ~ 200 pc $\times$ 100 pc region in the southwest bar of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We model a deep Hubble Space Telescope optical color-magnitude diagram…