Table · dataset · 2025
Nearby galaxies opt. attenuation, dust, gas
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Description
The purpose of the present study is to relate the optical attenuation inferred by the Balmer decrement, AVBD, and by the spectral energy distribution (SED)-fitting, AVSED, to the dust distribution and gas surface density throughout the disc of galaxies, down to scales smaller than 0.5kpc We investigate five nearby Herschel-detected star-forming spiral galaxies with available far-ultraviolet to sub-millimetre observations, along with atomic and molecular gas surface density maps and optical integral-field spectroscopic data.
We use the CIGALE SED-fitting code to map the dust mass surface density SigmaDUST and AVSED of different stellar populations. For each pixel, we independently estimate the attenuation from the Balmer decrement. We find that both SigmaDUST and AVBD trace better the molecular and total gas mass surface density, rather than the atomic gas.
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Since regions sampled in this study have high molecular fractions, atomic gas surface densities, indicative of molecular gas shielding layers, decrease as the mean dust-to-gas ratio increases from galaxy to galaxy. The fitted attenuation towards the young stellar population, AVSEDyoung, is in good agreement with AVBD and it can then be used to trace the attenuation in star-forming galaxies where integral-field observations are not available.
We estimate the ratio of AVBD over the total stellar AVSED and find it slightly larger than what has been found in previous studies. Finally, we investigate which dust distribution reproduces better the estimated AVBD and AVSED. We find that the attenuation towards old stars is consistent with the expectations for a standard galactic disc, where the stellar and dust distributions are mixed, while AVBD and the AVSEDyoung are between the values expected for a foreground dust screen and the mixed configuration.
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Where it is published
- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/702/A264 ↗
landing page · from IVOA Registry
Documentation and papers
- ADS 2025A&A...702A.264P ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025A%26A...702A.264P ↗
publication · from IVOA Registry
Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
metadata API · from IVOA Registry
- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/a%2Ba/702/a264 ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- Stated by source
- Optical
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/a+a/702/a264 | 14 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
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| access_level | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:optical | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_description |
| license_text | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_title |
| updated_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 |