The Physical Origins of Scatter in the Dust Attenuation Scaling Relation of Star-Forming Galaxies: Star--Dust Geometry

arXiv:2609.32284 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-26

Updated: 2026-09-26

Terminology

• Metallicity — 40× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Dust Attenuation — 31× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Star Formation Rate (SFR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Interstellar dust production, destruction and effects of dust depletion in galaxies
• Balmer Decrements and Nebular-Stellar Reddening in JADES Galaxies at $2.7<z<7$
• 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
• Big, Dusty Galaxies in Blue Jay: Insights into the Relationship Between Morphology and Dust Attenuation at Cosmic Noon
• Diversity and Evolution of Dust Attenuation Curves from Redshift z ~ 1 to 9
• The Identification of Two JWST/NIRCam-Dark Starburst Galaxies at $z=6.6$ with ALMA
• Evolution of dust attenuation in star-forming galaxies with UV slope, stellar mass, and redshift out to $z \sim 5$

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