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We present results of optical broad-band and narrow-band Halpha observations of a sample of forty nearby early-type galaxies. The majority of sample galaxies are known to have dust in various forms viz. dust lanes, nuclear dust and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Samridhi Kulkarni , D. K. Sahu , Laxmikant Chaware , N. K. Chakradhari , S. K. Pandey

Recently (Granato, Lacey, Silva et al. 2000, astro-ph/0001308) we have combined our spectrophotometric galaxy evolution code which includes dust reprocessing (GRASIL, Silva et al. 1998) with semi-analytical galaxy formation models (GALFORM,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. L. Granato , C. G. Lacey , L. Silva , A. Bressan , C. M. Baugh , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk

The discoveries of huge amounts of dust and unusual extinction curves in high-redshift quasars (z > 4) cast challenging issues on the origin and properties of dust in the early universe. In this Letter, we investigate the evolutions of dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Takaya Nozawa , Ryosuke S. Asano , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi

We analyze the dust attenuation properties of a volume-limited, optically-selected sample of normal star forming galaxies in nearby clusters as observed by GALEX. The internal attenuation is estimated using three independent indicators,…

Despite its small mass fraction typically observed in the interstellar medium, dust plays a significant role as a key component of galaxies, affecting a wide range of properties. This review focuses specifically on how dust grains influence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Francesco Calura

We constrain the light extinction properties of Milky Way dust. We investigated the correlations between dust column density as inferred from infrared data and the observed colours of celestial objects at cosmological distances with low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Edvard Mortsell

The emerging light from a galaxy is under the influence of its own interstellar medium, as well as its spatial orientation. Considering a sample of 2,239 local spiral galaxies in optical (SDSS u, g, r, i, and z) and infrared bands (WISE W1,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 Ehsan Kourkchi , R. Brent Tully , J. Don Neill , Mark Seibert , Helene M. Courtois , Alexandra Dupuy

Similar to the magnification of the galaxies' fluxes by gravitational lensing, the extinction of the fluxes by comic dust, whose existence is recently detected by Menard et al (2009), also modify the distribution of a flux-selected galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Wenjuan Fang , Lam Hui , Brice Menard , Morgan May , Ryan Scranton

The pervasive interstellar dust grains provide significant insights to understand the formation and evolution of the stars, planetary systems, and the galaxies, and may harbor the building blocks of life. One of the most effective way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Min Li , Sudeep Gaddam , Xiaolin Li , Yinan Zhao , Jingzhe Ma , Jian Ge

Understanding the evolution of dust in galaxies is crucial because it affects the dynamics and cooling of gas, star formation, and chemical evolution. Recent work on dust removal in galaxies indicates timescales of gigayears, with old…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-30 Aleksandra Leśniewska , Jens Hjorth , Christa Gall

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 results on the dust attenuation of galaxies at redshift $\sim3-6$ by studying the relationship between the UV spectral slope ($\beta_{\rm UV}$) and the infrared excess (IRX; $L_{\rm IR}$/$L_{\rm UV}$) using ALMA far-infrared…

In order to study the properties and effects of high Galactic latitude dust we present an analysis of 373,303 galaxies selected from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) All-Sky Survey and Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WISE) All-Sky Data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 J. E. G. Peek , David Schiminovich

We use a sample of 532 star-forming galaxies at redshifts $z\sim 1.4-2.6$ with deep rest-frame optical spectra from the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) survey to place the first constraints on the nebular attenuation curve at high…

We present the first measurements of the shape of the far-ultraviolet (far-UV; lambda=950-1500 A) dust attenuation curve at high redshift (z~3). Our analysis employs rest-frame UV spectra of 933 galaxies at z~3, 121 of which have very deep…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Naveen A. Reddy , Charles C. Steidel , Max Pettini , Milan Bogosavljevic

The use of ultraviolet (UV) emission as a tracer of galaxy star-formation rate (SFR) is hampered by dust obscuration. The empirical relationship between UV slope, $\beta$, and the ratio between far-infrared and UV luminosity, IRX, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-27 Gergö Popping , Annagrazia Puglisi , Colin A. Norman

Modern data of the extinction curve from the ultraviolet to the near infrared are revisited to study the property of dust grains in the Milky Way (MW) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We confirm that the graphite-silicate mixture of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Takaya Nozawa , Masataka Fukugita

We present a suite of 34 high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations consisting of thousands of halos up to M_halo~10^12 M_sun (M_star~10^10.5 M_sun) at z>=5 from the Feedback in Realistic Environments project. We post-process our…

The joint use of accurate near- and mid-infrared photometry from the 2MASS and WISE catalogues has allowed the variations of the extinction law and the dust grain size distribution in high Galactic latitudes (|b|>50) at distances up to 3…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-25 George Gontcharov

There are strong evidences which favour the existence of dust in active galaxies. Understanding the way in which dust interacts with the radiation and influences the physical conditions of the gas is crucial if we want to learn about the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Villar-Martin