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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

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…

Aims. Our aim is to estimate the intergalactic medium transmission towards UV-selected star-forming galaxies at redshift 4 and above and study the effect of the dust attenuation on these measurements. Methods. The ultra-violet spectrum of…

In this paper, the first of a series of two devoted to modelling the spectra of galaxies of different morphological type in presence of dust, we present our description of the dust both in the diffuse ISM and the molecular clouds. Our model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Piovan , R. Tantalo , C. Chiosi

We discuss the rest-frame UV emission between 5< z < 7 from the MareNostrum High-z Universe, a SPH simulation done with more than 2 billion particles. Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation generally overpredict the UV restframe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. E. Forero-Romero , G. Yepes , S. Gottloeber , S. R. Knollmann , A. Khalatyan , A. J. Cuesta , F. Prada

In this paper, we present spectrophotometric models for galaxies of different morphological type whose spectral energy distributions (SEDs) take into account the effect of dust in absorbing UV-optical light and re-emitting it in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lorenzo Piovan , Rosaria Tantalo , Cesare Chiosi

We present a new model to compute the effects of dust on the integrated spectral properties of galaxies, based on an idealized prescription of the main features of the interstellar medium (ISM). The model includes the ionization of HII…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Charlot , S. Michael Fall

Dust attenuation curves in external galaxies are useful to study their dust properties as well as to interpret their intrinsic spectral energy distributions. In particular the presence or absence of a UV bump at 2175 A remains an open issue…

Many astronomical objects are surrounded by dusty environments. In such dusty objects, multiple scattering processes of photons by circumstellar (CS) dust grains can effectively alter extinction properties. In this paper, we systematically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-25 T. Nagao , K. Maeda , T. Nozawa

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.…

The ultraviolet (UV) to sub-millimetre (submm) spectral energy distribution of galaxies can be roughly divided into two sections: the stellar emission (attenuated by dust) at UV to near-infrared wavelengths and dust emission at longer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-10 Wouter Dobbels , Maarten Baes

We investigate the effects of dust on Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) HII region spectral energy distributions using arcminute-resolution far-ultraviolet (FUV), H-alpha, far-infrared (FIR), and radio images. Widely-used indicators of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eric F. Bell , Karl D. Gordon , Robert C. Kennicutt , Dennis Zaritsky

We analyze the dust attenuation properties of a volume-limited, optically-selected sample of normal star forming galaxies in nearby clusters as observed by GALEX. The internal attenuation is estimated using three independent indicators,…

The far-ultraviolet (FUV) diffuse emission is predominantly due to scattering of starlight from interstellar dust grains which shows a large regional variation depending on the relative orientations of dust and stars. The observations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-05 Ananta C. Pradhan

I have used Monte Carlo models with multiple scattering to predict the dust scattered light from our Galaxy and have compared the predictions with data in two UV bands from the GALEX spacecraft. I find that 90\% of the scattered light…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-12 Jayant Murthy

We use observed optical to near infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 266 galaxies in the COSMOS survey to derive the wavelength dependence of the dust attenuation at high redshift. All of the galaxies have spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Nick Scoville , Andreas Faisst , Peter Capak , Yuko Kakazu , Gongjie Li , Charles Steinhardt

We examine the dust distribution around a sample of 70,000 low redshift galaxy groups and clusters derived from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. By correlating spectroscopically identified background quasars with the galaxy groups we obtain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sean L. McGee , Michael L. Balogh

The observed ultraviolet continuum (UVC) slope is potentially a powerful diagnostic of dust obscuration in star forming galaxies. However, the intrinsic slope is also sensitive to the form of the stellar initial mass function (IMF) and to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Stephen M. Wilkins , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Cedric G. Lacey , Carlton M. Baugh

A Monte Carlo model of radiative transfer in multi-phase dusty media is applied to the situation of stars and clumpy dust in a sphere or a disk. The distribution of escaping and absorbed photons are shown for various filling factors and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Varosi , Eli Dwek

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 $\sim 6400$…