2003/09/05 by Benne W. Holwerda, B. W. Holwerda, R. A. González +8
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0309183
2 pages; Proceedings, Poster presented at IAU, Sidney, July 22, 2003
arxiv created 2003/09/05 · openalex publication_date 2003/09/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We have applied the "Synthetic Field Method" on a sample of ~20 nearby galaxies in order to determine the opacity of their disks. We present preliminary results on the radial dependence of cold dust absorption for 3 examples. The spirals NGC4535 and NGC4725 show significant absorption at a half-light radius. UGC2302, a LSB galaxy, shows much less opacity.