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Large stellar surveys are sensitive to interstellar dust through the effects of reddening. Using extinctions measured from photometry and spectroscopy, together with three-dimensional (3D) positions of individual stars, it is possible to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 Sara Rezaei Kh. , Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones , David W. Hogg , Mathias Schultheis

We investigate the star formation and dust extinction properties of very luminous infrared galaxies whose spectra display a strong Hdelta line in absorption and a moderate [OII] emission (e[a] spectrum). This spectral combination has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bianca M. Poggianti , Alessandro Bressan , Alberto Franceschini

AIMS: I present the Monte Carlo radiative transfer code TRADING (Transfer of RAdiation through Dust In Galaxies). The code computes self-consistently the extinction of radiation in a dusty medium (including absorption and scattering) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simone Bianchi

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 attempt to interpret existing data on the evolution of the UV luminosity function and UV colours, $\beta$, of galaxies at $5 \leq z \leq 8$, to improve our understanding of their dust content and ISM properties. To this aim, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-21 Mattia Mancini , Raffaella Schneider , Luca Graziani , Rosa Valiante , Pratika Dayal , Umberto Maio , Benedetta Ciardi

We determine the mid-infrared (MIR, $\sim$5~\mu m--22~\mu m) extinction towards the Galactic center using MIRI/MRS integral field unit (IFU) observations of the central $3''\times3''$ region (near 5~\mu m) to $7''\times7''$ region (near…

Resolving the environments of massive stars is crucial for understanding their formation mechanisms and their impact on galaxy evolution. An important open question is whether massive stars found in diffuse regions outside spiral arms…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-12 Christina Willecke Lindberg , Claire Murray , Julianne Dalcanton , Josh Peek , Karl Gordon

Several of the current and next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments have polarimetric capability, promising to add to the finesse of precision cosmology. One of the contaminating Galactic foregrounds is thermal emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. G. Martin

Accurate correction for extinction by Galactic dust is essential for studying the extragalactic sky. In the low-extinction regions of the Ursa Major molecular cloud complex, we demonstrate that Galactic dust reddening maps constructed from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-28 Dennis Lee , Brandon S. Hensley , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré

Using spectroscopically selected galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey we present a detection of reddening due to dust in the circumgalactic medium of galaxies. We detect the mean change in the colors of "standard crayons" correlated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 J. E. G. Peek , Brice Ménard , Lia Corrales

In this study, we derived a galactic extinction map in high ecliptic latitudes for |\beta| > 30 degrees. The dust temperature distribution was derived from the intensities at 100 and 140 \mu m with a spatial resolution of 5'. The intensity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Tsunehito Kohyama , Hiroshi Shibai , Misato Fukagawa , Takahiro Sumi , Yasunori Hibi

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 earliest phases of massive star formation are found in cold and dense infrared dark clouds (IRDCs). Since the detection method of IRDCs is very sensitive to the local properties of the background emission, we present here an alternative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 K. L. J. Rygl , F. Wyrowski , F. Schuller , K. M. Menten

Following from our recent work, we present results of a detailed analysis of a representative sample of nearby galaxies. The photometric parameters of the morphological components are obtained from bulge-disk decompositions, using GALFIT…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-16 Bogdan A. Pastrav

We examine the three-dimensional structure and dust extinction properties in a ~ 200 pc $\times$ 100 pc region in the southwest bar of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We model a deep Hubble Space Telescope optical color-magnitude diagram…

Using three dimensional Monte Carlo radiation transfer models of photoionisation and dust scattering, we explore different components of the widespread diffuse H$\alpha$ emission observed in the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Joanna E. Barnes , Kenneth Wood , Alex S. Hill , L. Matthew Haffner

We analyze the intrinsic flux ratios of various visible--near-infrared filters with respect to 3.5micron for simple and composite stellar populations, and their dependence on age, metallicity and star formation history. UV/optical light…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-15 Duho Kim , Rolf A. Jansen , Rogier A. Windhorst

We analyze the distribution of rest-frame U-V and V-J colors for star-forming galaxies at 0.5 < z < 2.5. Using stellar population synthesis, stochastic star formation histories, and a simple prescription for the dust attenuation that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Leah Zuckerman , Sirio Belli , Joel Leja , Sandro Tacchella

In recent years, significant growth in the amount of data available to astronomers has opened up the possibility to uncover fundamental correlations, linking the dust component of a galaxy to its star formation rate (SFR). In this paper, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Ciro Pappalardo , George J. Bendo , Mederic Boquien , Maarten Baes , Sebastien Viaene , Simone Bianchi , Jacopo Fritz

It has often been suggested that an alternative to the standard CO/21-cm method for estimating the mass of the interstellar medium (ISM) in a galaxy might be to estimate the mass of the ISM from the continuum dust emission. In this paper,…