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We introduce a non-parametric approach, the Stellar Population Synthesis with Equivalent Widths (SEW) method, to reconstruct spectrally-resolved attenuation curves for 169,568 star-forming galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data…

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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…

The spectral energy distribution (SED) of galaxies provides fundamental information on the related physical processes. However, the SED is significantly affected by dust in its interstellar medium. Dust is mainly produced by asymptotic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 Kazuki Y. Nishida , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Takuma Nagata , Ryosuke S. Asano

Dust is a crucial component of the interstellar medium of galaxies. The presence of dust strongly affects the light produced by stars within a galaxy. As these photons are our main information vector to explore the stellar mass assembly and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 M. Cousin , V. Buat , G. Lagache , M. Bethermin

While dust is a major player in galaxy evolution, its relationship with gas and stellar radiation in the early universe is still not well understood. We combine 3D-HST emission line fluxes with far-UV through far-IR photometry in a sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-02 Gautam Nagaraj , Robin Ciardullo , William Bowman , Caryl Gronwall

Studying the UV dust attenuation, as well as its relation to other galaxy parameters such as the stellar mass, plays an important role in multi-wavelength research. This work relates the dust attenuation to the stellar mass of star forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Jana Bogdanoska , Denis Burgarella

[ABRIDGED] We derive the dust properties for 753 local galaxies and examine how these relate to some of their physical properties. We model their global dust-SEDs, treated statistically as an ensemble within a hierarchical Bayesian dust-SED…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-23 Sophia Lianou , Pauline Barmby , Aleksandr Mosenkov , Matthew Lehnert , Oskar Karczewski

We present the results of a machine learning study to measure the dust content of galaxies observed with JWST at z > 6 through the use of trained neural networks based on high-resolution IllustrisTNG simulations. Dust is an important…

Understanding the properties and physical mechanisms that shape dust attenuation curves in galaxies is one of the fundamental questions of extragalactic astrophysics, with a great practical significance for deriving the physical properties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-11 Samir Salim , Desika Narayanan

We apply the hierarchical probabilistic SED model BayeSN to analyse a sample of 475 SNe Ia (0.015 < z < 0.4) from Foundation, DES3YR and PS1MD to investigate the properties of dust in their host galaxies. We jointly infer the dust law $R_V$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Matthew Grayling , Stephen Thorp , Kaisey S. Mandel , Suhail Dhawan , Ana Sofia M. Uzsoy , Benjamin M. Boyd , Erin E. Hayes , Sam M. Ward

We examine the evolution of dust attenuation curve using a sample of 9504 disk star-forming galaxies (SFGs) selected from the CANDELS and 3D-HST surveys and a new technique relying on the fact that disk SFGs of similar stellar masses at the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-14 Yubin Li , XianZhong Zheng , Fengshan Liu

We present an implementation of a Bayesian mixture model using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) techniques to search for spatial separation of Galactic dust populations. Utilizing intensity measurements from Planck High Frequency Instrument…

We develop a novel approach to measure dust attenuation properties of galaxies, including the dust opacity, shape of the attenuation curve and the strength of the 2175{\AA} absorption feature. From an observed spectrum, the method uses a…

A notorious problem in astronomy is the recovery of the true shape and spectral energy distribution (SED) of a galaxy despite attenuation by interstellar dust embedded in the same galaxy. This problem has been solved for a few hundred…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-14 Jared Siegel , Peter Melchior

We explore the dependence of dust attenuation, as traced by the $\rm H_{\alpha}/\rm H_{\beta}$ Balmer decrement, on galactic properties by using a large sample of SDSS spectra. We use both Partial Correlation Coefficients (PCC) and Random…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-27 Gabriel Maheson , Roberto Maiolino , Mirko Curti , Ryan Sanders , Sandro Tacchella , Lester Sandles

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

(Abridged) We aim to study the evolution of dust attenuation in galaxies selected in the IR in the redshift range in which they are known to dominate the star formation activity in the universe. The comparison with other measurements of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 V. Buat , N. Oi , S. Heinis , L. Ciesla , D. Burgarella , H. Matsuhara , K. Malek , T. Goto , M. Malkan , L. Marchetti , Y. Ohyama , C. Pearson , S. Serjeant

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

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

We investigate the relationship between dust attenuation and stellar mass ($M_*$) in star-forming galaxies over cosmic time. For this analysis, we compare measurements from the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) survey at $z\sim2.3$ and…