{"paper":{"title":"An Empirical Determination of the Dust Mass Absorption Coefficient, $\\kappa_{d}$, Using the Herschel Reference Survey","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","authors_text":"Christopher J. R. Clark, Haley L. Gomez, Jonathan I. Davies, Simon P. Schofield","submitted_at":"2016-03-15T20:00:06Z","abstract_excerpt":"We use the published photometry and spectroscopy of 22 galaxies in the Herschel Reference Survey to determine that the value of the dust mass absorption coefficient $\\kappa_{d}$ at a wavelength of 500 $\\mu m$ is $\\kappa_{500} = 0.051^{+0.070}_{-0.026}\\,{\\rm m^{2}\\,kg^{-1}}$. We do so by taking advantage of the fact that the dust-to-metals ratio in the interstellar medium of galaxies appears to be constant. We argue that our value for $\\kappa_{d}$ supersedes that of James et al. (2002) -- who pioneered this approach for determining $\\kappa_{d}$ -- because we take advantage of superior data, and"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1603.04860","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}