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The gamma-ray bursts hosts (GRBHs) are excellent targets to study the extinction properties of dust and its effects on the global emission of distant galaxies. The dust extinction curve is measured along the GRB afterglow line of sight and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-03 D. Corre , V. Buat , S. Basa , S. Boissier , J. Japelj , J. Palmerio , R. Salvaterra , S. D. Vergani , T. Zafar

Context. Observations of quasars shining through foreground galaxies, offer a way to probe the dust extinction curves of distant galaxies. Interesting objects for this study are found in strong gravitational lensing systems, where the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Linda Ostman , Ariel Goobar , Edvard Mortsell

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

Extinction in galaxies affects their observed properties. In scenarios describing the distribution of dust and stars in individual disk galaxies, the amplitude of the extinction can be modulated by the inclination of the galaxies. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ching-Wa Yip , Alex Szalay , Rosemary Wyse , Laszlo Dobos , Tamas Budavari , Istvan Csabai

We present a proof-of-concept study that dust extinction curves can be extracted from the infrared (IR), optical, ultraviolet (UV) and X-ray afterglow observations of GRBs without assuming known extinction laws. We focus on GRB 050525A (z =…

To understand the evolution of extinction curve, we calculate the dust evolution in a galaxy using smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations incorporating stellar dust production, dust destruction in supernova shocks, grain growth by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Kuan-Chou Hou , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Kentaro Nagamine , Shohei Aoyama , Ikkoh Shimizu

(Abridged) We use 8 micron Spitzer GLIMPSE images to make extinction maps of 10 IRDCs, selected to be relatively nearby and massive. The extinction mapping technique requires modeling the IR background intensity behind the cloud, which is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Michael J. Butler , Jonathan C. Tan

Extinction maps are essential for tracing interstellar dust and enabling accurate stellar population studies in galaxies. Here, a high-resolution extinction distribution of nearby galaxy M33 is constructed by fitting multiband color indexes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-09 Yuxi Wang , Yi Ren , Jian Gao , Bingqiu Chen , Ying Li

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…

Context. The properties of dust grains, in particular their size distribution, are expected to differ from the interstellar medium to the high-density regions within molecular clouds. Since the extinction at near-infrared wavelengths is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Joana Ascenso , Marco Lombardi , Charles J. Lada , João Alves

(abridged) The dust content of the universe is primarily explored via its interaction with stellar photons, producing interstellar extinction. However, owing to the physical extension of the observing beam, observations may detect scattered…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 P. Scicluna , R. Siebenmorgen

The total-to-selective extinction ratio, Rv, is a key parameter for tracing the properties of interstellar dust, as it directly determines the variation of the extinction curve with wavelength. By utilizing accurate color excess…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-11 Ruoyi Zhang , Haibo Yuan , Bingqiu Chen

Context: The details of how galaxies have evolved are imprinted in their star formation history, chemical enrichment and morpho-kinematic structure. Parameters behind these can be measured by combining photometric techniques with modelling.…

It is well known that the extinction properties along lines of sight to Type Ia supernovae are described by steep extinction curves with unusually low total-to-selective extinction ratios of Rv = 1.0-2.0. In order to reveal the properties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 Takaya Nozawa

The Two Micron All Sky Survey, along with the Stellar Population Synthesis Model of the Galaxy, developed in Besancon, is used to calculate the extinction distribution along different lines of sight. By combining many lines of sight, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-08 D. J. Marshall , A. C. Robin , C. Reyle , M. Schultheis , S. Picaud

The Milky Way extinction curve in the near-infrared (NIR) follows a power law form, but the value of the slope, $\beta_\text{NIR}$, is debated. Systematic variations in the slope of the Milky Way UV extinction curve are known to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-20 Robert E. Butler , Samir Salim

We consider from a general point of view the problem of determining the extinction in dense molecular clouds. We use a rigorous statistical approach to characterize the properties of the most widely used optical and infrared techniques,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marco Lombardi

We have assembled a homogeneous database of 417 ultraviolet (UV) extinction curves for reddened sightlines having International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) spectra. We have combined these with optical and 2MASS photometry allowing estimates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lynne A. Valencic , Geoffrey C. Clayton , Karl D. Gordon

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 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