Abstract
The attenuation law through the clumpy interstellar medium (ISM) in disk galaxies is investigated. I adopted the mega-grain approximation, in which dusty clumps are regarded as very large particles (i.e. mega-grains), to treat the ISM dumpiness in a 1-D plane-parallel radiative transfer with multiple anisotropic scatterings. Further, a physical model of the dumpiness was introduced as an extention of the multi-phase ISM model. In this framework, the attenuation law is determined by three physical quantities in the ISM: the mean gas density, the mean pressure, and the dust-to-gas ratio. I found that the attenuation law of normal disk galaxies is much steeper than that of starburst galaxies observed by Calzetti et al.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 285-286 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP |
| Issue number | 577 |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | The Dusty and Molecular Universe - A Prelude to Herschel and ALMA - Paris, France Duration: 2004 Oct 27 → 2004 Oct 29 |
Keywords
- Dust,extinction
- Radiative transfer
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Aerospace Engineering
- Space and Planetary Science