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Fitting model spectral energy distributions (SED) to galaxy photometric data is a widely used method to recover galaxy parameters from galaxy surveys. However, the parameter space used to describe galaxies is wide and interdependent, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-29 Cole Meldorf , Antonella Palmese , Samir Salim

One of the most common methods for inferring galaxy attenuation curves is via spectral energy distribution (SED) modeling, where the dust attenuation properties are modeled simultaneously with other galaxy physical properties. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 Sidney Lower , Desika Narayanan , Joel Leja , Benjamin D. Johnson , Charlie Conroy , Romeel Dave

A variety of dust attenuation/extinction curves have been observed in high-redshift galaxies, with mixed results regarding their correlations with global galaxy properties. These variations are likely driven by factors such as intrinsic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 V. Markov , S. Gallerani , A. Pallottini , M. Bradac , S. Carniani , R. Tripodi , G. Noirot , F. Di Mascia , E. Parlanti , N. Martis

We relate the optical attenuation inferred by the Balmer decrement, $A_{V\mathrm{,BD}}$, and by the SED-fitting, $A_{V\mathrm{,SED}}$, to the dust distribution and gas surface density throughout the disc of galaxies, down to scales smaller…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-29 E. D. Paspaliaris , S. Bianchi , E. Corbelli , A. Concas

This letter utilizes composite spectral energy distributions (SEDs) constructed from NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey photometry to constrain the dust attenuation curve in 0.5<z<2.0 galaxies. Based on similarities between the full SED shapes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mariska Kriek , Charlie Conroy

We study the drivers of the scatter in the IRX-beta relation using 23,000 low-redshift galaxies from the GALEX-SDSS-WISE Legacy Catalog 2 (GSWLC-2). For each galaxy we derive, using CIGALE and the SED+LIR fitting technique, the slope of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 Samir Salim , Médéric Boquien

Dust attenuation modifies the observed spectral energy distribution (SED), leading to biases in the properties inferred from integrated SED fitting. As spatially resolved SED modeling becomes feasible for large high-redshift samples, it is…

Understanding the impact of dust on the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies is crucial for inferring their physical properties and for studying the nature of interstellar dust. We analyze dust attenuation curves for $\sim 6400$…

The dust attenuation for a sample of $\sim$10000 local ($z\lesssim0.1$) star forming galaxies is constrained as a function of their physical properties. We utilize aperture-matched multi-wavelength data available from the Galaxy Evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 A. J. Battisti , D. Calzetti , R. -R. Chary

We present the results of a new study of dust attenuation at redshifts $3 < z < 4$ based on a sample of $236$ star-forming galaxies from the VANDELS spectroscopic survey. Motivated by results from the First Billion Years (FiBY) simulation…

Sophisticated spectral energy distribution (SED) models describe dust attenuation and emission using geometry parameters. This treatment is natural since dust effects are driven by the underlying star-dust geometry in galaxies. An example…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Yisheng Qiu , Xi Kang , Yu Luo

We study dust attenuation curves of 230,000 individual galaxies in the local universe, ranging from quiescent to intensely star-forming systems, using GALEX, SDSS, and WISE photometry calibrated on Herschel-ATLAS. We use a new method of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 Samir Salim , Médéric Boquien , Janice C. Lee

Dust plays a pivotal role in determining the observed spectral energy distribution (SED) of galaxies. Yet our understanding of dust attenuation is limited and our observations suffer from the dust-metallicity-age degeneracy in SED fitting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Gautam Nagaraj , John C. Forbes , Joel Leja , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Christopher C. Hayward

We present a systematic study of the shape of the dust attenuation curve in star-forming galaxies from the far ultraviolet to the near infrared (0.15-2microns), as a function of specific star formation rate (sSFR) and axis ratio (b/a), for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Vivienne Wild , Stephane Charlot , Jarle Brinchmann , Timothy Heckman , Oliver Vince , Camilla Pacifici , Jacopo Chevallard

At intermediate and high redshifts, measurements of galaxy star-formation rates are usually based on rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) data. A correction for dust attenuation, A_UV, is needed for these measurements. This correction is typically…

In this work we use stacking analysis in \emph{Herschel} PACS to study the accuracy of several dust-correction factors typically employed to estimate total star-formation rate (SFR) of high-redshift star-forming (SF) galaxies. We also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-26 I. Oteo

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

Attenuation curves in galaxies depend on dust chemical composition, content, and grain size distribution. Such parameters are related to intrinsic galaxy properties such as metallicity, star formation rate, and stellar age. Due to the lack…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-01 V. Markov , S. Gallerani , A. Pallottini , L. Sommovigo , S. Carniani , A. Ferrara , E. Parlanti , F. Di Mascia

Dust attenuation of an inclined galaxy can cause additional asymmetries in observations, even if the galaxy has a perfectly symmetric structure. {Taking advantage of the integral field spectroscopic data observed by the SDSS-IV MaNGA…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 Fang-Ting Yuan , Jiafeng Lu , Shiyin Shen , Médéric Boquien

The UV-optical dust attenuation curve is key to interpreting the intrinsic properties of galaxies and provides insights into the nature of dust grains and their geometry relative to stars. In this work, we constrain the UV-optical slope of…

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