Bogus dust screens from well mixed exponential disks in galaxies

Details Bogus dust screens from well mixed exponential disks in galaxies Bogus dust screens from well mixed exponential disks in galaxies

1998-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9810152v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 7 figures, accepted by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Scientific paper

The V-K colours along the minor axes of spiral galaxies typically change from red to blue with increasing distance, giving the impression that the near side is systematically screened by dust. Such a preferred orientation for dust screens is unlikely. Here we show that common extinction from the embedded dust layer in an exponential disk has the same effect, making the near side systematically redder as the inclination increases. The galaxy NGC 2841 is modelled as an example, where the V-K profile is profoundly asymmetric and actually step-like across the centre. We predict that the minor axis emission profile of the same dust in the far-infrared, at wavelength 200 microns, will be much more symmetric than the optical profiles, implying nearly equal column densities of dust on both sides of the minor axis.

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