The Opacity of Spiral Galaxy Disks IV: Radial Extinction Profiles from Counts of Distant Galaxies seen through Foreground Disks

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2004-11-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411663v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

43 pages, 16 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal, (typos, table update, updates abstract)

Scientific paper

10.1086/427716

Dust extinction can be determined from the number of distant field galaxies seen through a spiral disk. To calibrate this number for the crowding and confusion introduced by the foreground image, Gonzalez et al.(1998) and Holwerda et al. (2005) developed the ``Synthetic Field Method'' (SFM), which analyses synthetic fields constructed by adding various deep exposures of unobstructed background fields to the candidate foreground galaxy field. The advantage of the SFM is that it gives the average opacity for area of galaxy disk without assumptions about either the distribution of absorbers or of the disk starlight. However it is limited by low statistics of the surviving field galaxies, hence the need to combine a larger sample of fields. This paper presents the first results for a sample of 32 deep HST/WFPC2 archival fields of 29 spirals. The radial profiles of average dust extinction in spiral galaxies based on calibrated counts of distant field galaxies is presented here, both for individual galaxies as well as for composites from our sample. The effects of inclination, spiral arms and Hubble type on the radial extinction profile are discussed. (Abbreviated)

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