Comparing the Nebular and Stellar Dust Attenuation Curves in Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies

arXiv:2608.24123 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-25

Terminology

• Metallicity — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Abundance — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Dust Attenuation — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute — 2× in this paper
• National Research Foundation of Korea — 2× in this paper
• Selection Bias — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Anti-correlation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Population Synthesis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Evidence for Shallow Nebular Attenuation Curves and Patchy Dust Geometry at z~2 with Pa-beta/H-alpha Measurements from JWST-MegaScience Medium Band Photometry
• The AURORA Survey: Multiple Balmer and Paschen Emission Lines for Individual Star-forming Galaxies at z=1.5-4.4. II. Implications for Nebular Dust Corrections, Nebular SFRs, and Differential Reddening
• A first empirical derivation of the average dust attenuation law at 2<z<7
• Constructing a Hydrogen Line Library for Ly alpha Emitters at Low Redshifts (z < 0.4): Estimating Dust Extinction and Assessing Paschen line Detectability with SPHEREx
• FRESCO: Constraining Dust Attenuation and Star-Formation Rates of $z\sim 2$ Star-Forming Galaxies with JWST Paschen and Ground-Based Balmer Emission Line Observations

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