Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001aas...198.5502s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 198th AAS Meeting, #55.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.867
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
As more sensitive telescopes and instruments begin to probe even fainter galaxies at high redshift, principally from their rest-frame UV, a general method of correcting for intrinsic UV extinction becomes crucial. It is known that starburst galaxies exhibit a correlation between their UV spectral slope (equivalent to UV color) and their infrared excess (ratio of far-IR to far-UV; IRX). This relationship indicates that dust surrounds starburst regions and can be modeled to provide an estimate of the UV extinction as a simple function of the UV color. We are attempting to determine if a UV-reddening law exists for normal star forming galaxies. We present the preliminary results of a UV spectral slope -- IRX relation for nearby star forming galaxies. The spectral slope is determined from UIT far-UV and near-UV imaging data. The infrared excess is based on IRAS 60 and 100 micron HIRES data. This work is supported by the NASA ADP program under the grant NAG5-8279.
Meurer Gerhardt R.
Seibert Marvin M.
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