Dust extinction in highly inclined spirals.

Knapen, J.; Beckman, J.; Jansen, R.; Peletier, R.; Hes, R.
Referencia bibliográfica

The Opacity of Spiral Disks, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, edited by Jonathan I. Davies and David Burstein. NATO Advanced Science Institutes (ASI) Series C, Volume 469, p.185

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1995
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5
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3
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Descripción
We recently studied a small number of highly inclined spiral galaxies, and used their special geometry to determine absolute extinction values of the dust in their dust lanes. We apply a simple model of a uniform mixture of stars and dust to the data, and find that the extinction values in these galaxies are the same as those making up the Galactic extinction law. This Galactic law seems to be universally applicable.