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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 $\sim 6400$…

We develop a method to estimate the dust attenuation curve of galaxies from full spectral fitting of their optical spectra. Motivated from previous studies, we separate the small-scale features from the large-scale spectral shape, by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 Niu Li , Cheng Li , Houjun Mo , Jian Hu , Shuang Zhou , Cheng Du

Understanding dust attenuation in galaxies at both integrated and spatially resolved scales is fundamental for accurately determining the physical properties of galaxies. Recent high-spatial-resolution observations with ALMA and JWST enable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 Yurina Nakazato , Kosei Matsumoto , Akio K. Inoue , Daniel Ceverino , Takashi Hosokawa , Daisuke Toyouchi

We characterize the influence that inclination has on the shape and normalization in average dust attenuation curves derived from a sample of ~10,000 local star-forming galaxies. To do this we utilize aperture-matched multi-wavelength data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 A. J. Battisti , D. Calzetti , R. -R. Chary

We study the effects of dust in hydrodynamic simulations of spiral galaxies when different radial metallicity gradients are assumed. SUNRISE, a Monte-Carlo radiative-transfer code, is used to make detailed calculations of the internal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Miguel Rocha , Patrik Jonsson , Joel R. Primack , T. J. Cox

We present an analysis of the dust optical properties at large scale, for the whole galactic anticenter hemisphere. We used the 2MASS Extended Source Catalog to obtain the total reddening on each galaxy line of sight and we compared this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-19 L. Cambresy , T. H. Jarrett , C. A. Beichman

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 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

We characterize the near-infrared (NIR) dust attenuation for a sample of ~5500 local (z<0.1) star-forming galaxies and obtain an estimate of their average total-to-selective attenuation $k(\lambda)$. We utilize data from the United Kingdom…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-24 A. J. Battisti , D. Calzetti , R. -R. Chary

Analysing a large representative sample of local galaxies (8707), we find that the variation in the shape of their dust attenuation curves is driven primarily by their structure, i.e., distribution of stars (and dust) within them. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-10 Sonali Sachdeva , Biman B. Nath

We present new calculations of the attenuation of stellar light from spiral galaxies using geometries for stars and dust which can reproduce the entire spectral energy distribution from the UV to the FIR/submm and can also account for the…

We derive the mean wavelength dependence of stellar attenuation in a sample of 239 high redshift (1.90 < z < 2.35) galaxies selected via Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFC3 IR grism observations of their rest-frame optical emission lines. Our…

(Abridged) The effective extinction law (attenuation behavior) in galaxies in the emitted ultraviolet is well known only for actively star-forming objects and combines effects of the grain properties, fine structure in the dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 William C. Keel , Anna M. Manning , Benne W. Holwerda , Chris J. Lintott , Kevin Schawinski

A sample of local galaxies for which far infrared and uv fluxes are available is used to estimate the characteristic dust extinction in galaxies and to test whether standard dust properties are plausible. Assuming galaxies can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Rowan-Robinson

Dust attenuation strongly affects the observed spectral energy distributions of galaxies, introducing significant uncertainties in the derivation of key physical properties such as star formation rates, stellar masses, and metallicities.…

We present an extensive study of the radiative transfer in dusty galaxies based on Monte Carlo simulations. The main output of these simulations are the attenuation curves ${\cal A}_\lambda$ (i.e. the ratio between the observed, dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Ferrara , S. Bianchi , A. Cimatti , C. Giovanardi

The presence of dust in spiral galaxies affects the ability of photometric decompositions to retrieve the parameters of their main structural components. For galaxies in an edge-on orientation, the optical depth integrated over the…

We make use of SHARDS, an ultra-deep (<26.5AB) galaxy survey that provides optical photo-spectra at resolution R~50, via medium band filters (FWHM~150A). This dataset is combined with ancillary optical and NIR fluxes to constrain the dust…

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

Dust attenuation in star-forming spiral galaxies affects stars and gas in different ways due to local variations in dust geometry. We present spatially resolved measurements of dust attenuation for a sample of 232 such star-forming spiral…