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Since the epoch of cosmic star formation peak at $z \sim 2$, most of it is obscured in high mass galaxies, while in low mass galaxies the radiation escapes unobstructed. During the reionization epoch, the presence of evolved, dust obscured…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-21 J. H. Barbosa-Santos , Gastão B. Lima Neto , Amancio C. S. Friaça

We present 3D-Herschel, a new 0.3-350$\mu$m photometric catalog that combines deblended Herschel far-infrared (FIR) imaging with the CANDELS/3D-HST legacy fields to probe the dust-obscured universe. Using the 17-parameter fitting code…

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

[Abridged] We present a new approach to investigate the content and spatial distribution of dust in structurally unresolved star-forming galaxies from the observed dependence of integrated spectral properties on galaxy inclination. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jacopo Chevallard , Stephane Charlot , Benjamin Wandelt , Vivienne Wild

A new optical reddening model for the Solar neighborhood is presented. The model makes use of the large-scale properties of the dust layer in the Galaxy, and of the observed clumpiness in its distribution, and it is used to compute…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 R. A. Mendez , W. F. van Altena

We reconsider the origin and processing of dust in elliptical galaxies. We theoretically formulate the evolution of grain size distribution, taking into account dust supply from asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and dust destruction by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-14 Hiroyuki Hirashita , Takaya Nozawa , Alexa Villaume , Sundar Srinivasan

2MASS K_S band data of the inner 60 pc of the Galaxy are used to reconstruct the line-of-sight distances of the giant molecular clouds located in this region. Using the 2MASS H band image of the same region, two different populations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Vollmer , R. Zylka , W. J. Duschl

We present a novel technique to decompose line-of-sight (LOS) stellar polarization as a function of distance, aimed at reconstructing three dimensional (3D) plane-of-sky (POS) magnetic structures in the interstellar medium (ISM). The method…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Namita Uppal , Konstantinos Tassis , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Vincent Pelgrims , Myrto Falalaki

The Boltzmann equation relates the equilibrium phase space distribution of stars in the Milky Way to the Galaxy's gravitational potential. However, observations of stellar populations are biased by extinction from foreground dust, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-05 Eric Putney , David Shih , Sung Hak Lim , Matthew R. Buckley

The gravitational potential of the Milky Way encodes information about the distribution of all matter -- including dark matter -- throughout the Galaxy. Gaia data release 3 has revealed a complex structure that necessitates flexible models…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-05 Taavet Kalda , Gregory M. Green

We utilize archival far-infrared maps from the Herschel Space Observatory in four Local Group galaxies (Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, M31, and M33). We model their Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) from 100 to 500 $\mu$m using a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-02 Dyas Utomo , I-Da Chiang , Adam K. Leroy , Karin M. Sandstrom , Jeremy Chastenet

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 calculate the evolution of a star-forming cloud core using a three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulation, treating dust grains as Lagrangian particles, to investigate the dust motion in the early star formation stage. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Shunta Koga , Masahiro N. Machida

Most radiative transfer models assume that dust in spiral galaxies is distributed exponentially. In this paper our goal is to verify this assumption by analysing the two-dimensional large-scale distribution of dust in galaxies from the…

Estimating the temperature and mass of dust in high-$z$ galaxies is essential for discussions of the origin of dust in the early Universe. However, this suffers from limited sampling of the infrared spectral-energy distribution. Here we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Akio K. Inoue , Takuya Hashimoto , Hiroki Chihara , Chiyoe Koike

We present the dust mass function (DMF) of 15,750 galaxies with redshift $z< 0.1$, drawn from the overlapping area of the GAMA and {\it H-}ATLAS surveys. The DMF is derived using the density corrected $V_{\rm max}$ method, where we estimate…

Inversion of interstellar gas or dust columns measured along the path to stars distributed in distance and direction allows reconstructing the distribution of interstellar matter (ISM) in 3D. A low resolution IS dust map based on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Rosine Lallement

We describe the calculation of the stochastically heated dust emission using the 3D ray-tracing dust radiative transfer code DART-Ray, which is designed to solve the dust radiative transfer problem for galaxies with arbitrary geometries. In…

We propose and test a new method based on Richardson-Lucy deconvolution to reconstruct three-dimensional gas density and temperature distributions in galaxy clusters from combined X-ray and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations. Clusters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ewald Puchwein , Matthias Bartelmann

Context: Dust reprocesses about half of the stellar radiation in galaxies. The thermal re-emission by dust of absorbed energy is considered driven merely by young stars and, consequently, often applied to trace the star formation rate in…