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dc.contributor.authorKahre, L
dc.contributor.authorWalterbos, RA
dc.contributor.authorKim, H
dc.contributor.authorThilker, D
dc.contributor.authorCalzetti, D
dc.contributor.authorLee, JC
dc.contributor.authorSabbi, E
dc.contributor.authorUbeda, L
dc.contributor.authorAloisi, A
dc.contributor.authorCignoni, M
dc.contributor.authorCook, DO
dc.contributor.authorDale, DA
dc.contributor.authorElmegreen, BG
dc.contributor.authorElmegreen, DM
dc.contributor.authorFumagalli, M
dc.contributor.authorGallagher, JS
dc.contributor.authorGouliermis, DA
dc.contributor.authorGrasha, K
dc.contributor.authorGrebel, EK
dc.contributor.authorHunter, DA
dc.contributor.authorSacchi, E
dc.contributor.authorSmith, LJ
dc.contributor.authorTosi, M
dc.contributor.authorAdamo, A
dc.contributor.authorAndrews, JE
dc.contributor.authorAshworth, G
dc.contributor.authorBright, SN
dc.contributor.authorBrown, TM
dc.contributor.authorChandar, R
dc.contributor.authorChristian, C
dc.contributor.authorDe Mink, SE
dc.contributor.authorDobbs, C
dc.contributor.authorEvans, AS
dc.contributor.authorHerrero, A
dc.contributor.authorJohnson, KE
dc.contributor.authorKennicutt, RC
dc.contributor.authorKrumholz, MR
dc.contributor.authorMessa, M
dc.contributor.authorNair, P
dc.contributor.authorNota, A
dc.contributor.authorPellerin, A
dc.contributor.authorRyon, JE
dc.contributor.authorSchaerer, D
dc.contributor.authorShabani, F
dc.contributor.authorVan Dyk, SD
dc.contributor.authorWhitmore, BC
dc.contributor.authorWofford, A
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-23T15:52:58Z
dc.date.issued2018-03-16
dc.description.abstractWe present a study of the dust-to-gas ratios in five nearby galaxies: NGC 628 (M74), NGC 6503, NGC 7793, UGC 5139 (Holmberg I), and UGC 4305 (Holmberg II). Using Hubble Space Telescope broadband WFC3/UVIS UV and optical images from the Treasury program Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS) combined with archival HST/Advanced Camera for Surveys data, we correct thousands of individual stars for extinction across these five galaxies using an isochrone-matching (reddening-free Q) method. We generate extinction maps for each galaxy from the individual stellar extinctions using both adaptive and fixed resolution techniques and correlate these maps with neutral H i and CO gas maps from the literature, including the H i Nearby Galaxy Survey and the HERA CO-Line Extragalactic Survey. We calculate dust-to-gas ratios and investigate variations in the dust-to-gas ratio with galaxy metallicity. We find a power-law relationship between dust-to-gas ratio and metallicity, consistent with other studies of dust-to-gas ratio compared to metallicity. We find a change in the relation when H2is not included. This implies that underestimation of in low-metallicity dwarfs from a too-low CO-to-H2conversion factor XCOcould have produced too low a slope in the derived relationship between dust-to-gas ratio and metallicity. We also compare our extinctions to those derived from fitting the spectral energy distribution (SED) using the Bayesian Extinction and Stellar Tool for NGC 7793 and find systematically lower extinctions from SED fitting as compared to isochrone matching.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work is based on observations made with the NASA/ ESA Hubble Space Telescope, obtained at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy under NASA contract NAS 5-26555. These observations are associated with program 13364 (LEGUS). Support for program 13364 was provided by NASA through a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute. LK and RAW acknowledge support from the Space Telescope Science institute (grant Numbers HST-GO13773.003-A). LK would additionally like to acknowledge support from the Gemini Observatory in La Serena, Chile. MF acknowledges support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (grant Number ST/P000541/1). DAG kindly acknowledges financial support by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through program GO 1659/3-2. GA acknowledges support from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/P000541/1 and ST/M503472/1).en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 855, article 133en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.3847/1538-4357/aab101
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/34896
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherAmerican Astronomical Society / IOP Publishingen_GB
dc.rights© 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.en_GB
dc.subjectdust, extinctionen_GB
dc.subjectgalaxies: dwarfen_GB
dc.subjectgalaxies: ISMen_GB
dc.subjectgalaxies: photometryen_GB
dc.subjectgalaxies: spiralen_GB
dc.subjectISM: generalen_GB
dc.titleExtinction Maps and Dust-to-gas Ratios in Nearby Galaxies with LEGUSen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2018-11-23T15:52:58Z
dc.identifier.issn0004-637X
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available from American Astronomical Society via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.journalAstrophysical Journalen_GB


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