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We provide a systematic measurement of the rest-frame UV continuum slope beta over a wide range in redshift (z~2-6) and rest-frame UV luminosity (0.1-2L*) to improve estimates of the SFR density at high redshift. We utilize the deep optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 R. J. Bouwens , G. D. Illingworth , M. Franx , R-R. Chary , G. R. Meurer , C. J. Conselice , H. Ford , M. Giavalisco , P. van Dokkum

We present new HST STIS NUV-MAMA and STIS CCD observations of the BL Lac object AO 0235+164 and the intervening damped Ly alpha (DLA) line at z_a = 0.524. The line profile gives N(H I) = 5 +/- 1 x 10^{21} cm^{-2} and, combined with the H I…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. T. Junkkarinen , Ross D. Cohen , E. A. Beaver , E. M. Burbidge , R. W. Lyons , G. Madejski

The properties of dust attenuation at rest-frame UV wavelengths are inferred from very high-quality FORS2 spectra of 78 galaxies from the GMASS survey at 1<z<2.5. These objects complement a previously investigated sample of 108 UV-luminous…

We have studied the UV extinction properties along 30 Galactic sightlines using data from the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) archive that have never been previously examined. These distant (d > 1 kpc) sightlines were selected to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Geoffrey C. Clayton , Karl D. Gordon , Michael J. Wolff

We present an extinction analysis of 9 paths through the LMC and SMC based on FUSE observations. To date, just two LMC sight lines have probed dust grain composition and size distributions in the Clouds using spectra including wavelengths…

The extinction curve of interstellar dust in the dense molecular cloud cores is crucial for understanding dust properties, particularly size distribution and composition. We investigate the infrared extinction law in four nearby isolated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-04 Jun Li , Bingqiu Chen , Biwei Jiang , He Zhao , Botao Jiang , Xi Chen

Dust attenuation affects nearly all observational aspects of galaxy evolution, yet very little is known about the form of the dust-attenuation law in the distant Universe. Here, we model the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies…

The interpretation of ultraviolet Galactic interstellar extinction curves is obscured today by accumulated assumptions, such as a purported link between the 2200 A bump and metallicity, that are not firmly supported by observations. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-25 Frederic Zagury

We present a detailed map of the reddening in a 1.9 x 1.5 degree section of the Large Magellanic Cloud, constructed from UBVI photometry of 2069 O and B main sequence stars. We use two reddening-free photometric parameters to determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jason Harris , Dennis Zaritsky , Ian Thompson

Extinction in ultraviolet is much more significant than in optical or infrared, which can be very informative to precisely measure the extinction and understand the dust properties in the low extinction areas. The high Galactic latitude sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-23 Mingxu Sun , Biwei Jiang , Haibo Yuan , Jun Li

We present new data taken at 850 $\mu$m with SCUBA at the JCMT for a sample of 19 luminous infrared galaxies. Fourteen galaxies were detected. We have used these data, together with fluxes at 25, 60 and 100 $\mu$m from IRAS, to model the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Lisenfeld , K. G. Isaak , R. Hills

We report BVR surface photometry of a lenticular galaxy, NGC4753 with prominent dust lanes. We have used the multicolor broadband photometry to study dust-extinction as a function of wavelength and derived the extinction curve. We find the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. C. Dewangan , K. P. Singh , P. N. Bhat

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

The extinction law from ultraviolet (UV) to infrared (IR) (0.2-24 $\mu$m) is determined by relying on the blue-edge method and color excess ratios for some nearby molecular clouds, from low mass star forming region to massive star forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-04 Zhetai Cao , Biwei Jiang , Shu Wang , Jun Li

The high-redshift (z>2) galaxies discovered over the last few years with the Lyman-break technique represent, in number density, a major fraction of the galaxies known in the Local Universe. Thus, understanding the properties and the nature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniela Calzetti

Photoelectric magnitudes and color indices in the Vilnius seven-color system for 152 stars are used to investigate the interstellar extinction in the area of the Aries molecular cloud MBM 12, coinciding with the L1454 and L1457 dust clouds.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Straizys , K. Cernis , A. Kazlauskas , V. Laugalys

We report on the detection of reddening toward z ~ 0.2 galaxy clusters. This is measured by correlating the Sloan Digital Sky Survey cluster and quasar catalogs and by comparing the photometric and spectroscopic properties of quasars behind…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Doron Chelouche , Benjamin P. Koester , David V. Bowen

We report observations of 15 high redshift (z = 1-5) galaxies at 350 microns using the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory and SHARC-II array detector. Emission was detected from eight galaxies, for which far-infrared luminosities, star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Jingwen Wu , Paul Vanden Bout , Neal Evans , Michael Dunham

Semi-analytical models of galaxy formation based on hierarchical clustering now make a wide range of predictions for observable properties of galaxies at low and high redshift. This article concentrates on 2 aspects: (1) Self-consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cedric Lacey , Carlton Baugh , Shaun Cole , Carlos Frenk , Fabio Governato

We detect 1.2mm continuum emission from dust in the gravitationally lensed Lyman break galaxy MS 1512+36-cB58. Our detected flux is surprisingly low: relative to local starburst galaxies, cB58 appears to produce somewhat less far-IR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. J. Baker , D. Lutz , R. Genzel , L. J. Tacconi , M. D. Lehnert