Pith. sign in

REVIEW 10 cited by

Dust Absorption And The Ultraviolet Luminosity Density At z approx 3 As Calibrated By Local Starburst Galaxies

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv astro-ph/9903054 v1 pith:A7T5CALQ submitted 1999-03-03 astro-ph

Dust Absorption And The Ultraviolet Luminosity Density At z \approx 3 As Calibrated By Local Starburst Galaxies

classification astro-ph
keywords luminosityu-dropoutsgalaxiesabsorptiondustratiobetadensity
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal T4 reserved
0 comments
Share X Bluesky LinkedIn Reddit HN
abstract

We refine a technique to measure the absorption corrected ultraviolet (UV) luminosity of starburst galaxies using rest frame UV quantities alone, and apply it to U-dropouts at z ~ 3 found in the Hubble Deep Field. The method is based on an observed correlation between the ratio of far infrared (FIR) to UV fluxes with spectral slope \beta (a UV color). A simple fit to this relation allows the UV flux absorbed by dust to be calculated, and hence the dust-free UV luminosity to be determined. IUE spectra and IRAS fluxes of local starbursts are used to calibrate the ratio in terms of 1600 Angstrom absorption A_{1600}, and the transformation from broad band color to \beta. We show that the recent marginal and non-detections of HDF U-dropouts in the radio and sub-mm are consistent with our calculated A_{1600}. This is also true of observations of the ratio of optical emission line flux to UV flux density in the brightest U-dropouts. This latter ratio turns out not to be a good indicator of dust extinction. In U-dropouts, absolute magnitude correlates with \beta: brighter galaxies are redder, as is observed in local starburst galaxies. This suggests that a mass-metallicity relationship is in place by z ~ 3. The UV luminosity function of U-dropouts extends up to M_{1600,0} ~ -24 ABmag corresponding to a star formation rate ~ 200 \Msun/yr (H_0 = 50 km/s/Mpc, q_0 = 0.5). The absorption-corrected UV luminosity density at z ~ 3 is \rho_{1600,0} => 1.4x10^{27} erg/s/Hz/Mpc^3; still a lower limit since completeness corrections have not been done and because only galaxies with A_{1600} < ~3.6 mag are blue enough to be selected as U-dropouts. The luminosity weighted mean dust absorption factor of our sample is 5.4 +/- 0.9$ at 1600\AA (abridged).

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 10 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. Anisotropic quenching beyond $z=1$ and its implications for preprocessing around high-redshift galaxy clusters

    astro-ph.GA 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Anisotropic quenching is detected at the highest redshift yet and linked to preprocessing dominating over intrahalo effects by ~20% along the major axis in a delay-then-rapid quenching model informed by cluster accret...

  2. Learning the Universe: The Structure of Dust Attenuation Curves in Galaxy Simulations

    astro-ph.GA 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Four parameters suffice to describe dust attenuation curve diversity in TNG simulations, yielding a new symbolic-regression model that recovers curves and fluxes better than existing parameterizations while linking pa...

  3. pop-cosmos: Disentangling galaxy properties from observables using data-driven approaches

    astro-ph.GA 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    A beta-VAE analysis of pop-cosmos models finds that five latent dimensions capture the rest-frame optical SED, corresponding to stellar mass, recent star formation, dust, and two gas ionization states.

  4. pop-cosmos: Disentangling galaxy properties from observables using data-driven approaches

    astro-ph.GA 2026-06 conditional novelty 6.0

    Rest-frame optical galaxy SEDs from a 16-parameter SPS model are captured by five disentangled VAE latents (mass, young stars, dust, soft/hard ionization); metallicity and age are not independent drivers.

  5. JWST spectroscopy of galaxies at $z>10$: Damped Ly$\alpha$ absorbers reveal efficient star formation and hidden redshift biases

    astro-ph.GA 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    Analysis of JWST/NIRSpec Prism spectra for 25 z>=10 galaxies finds burstiness correlates with strong UV lines, short depletion times, and DLA-induced redshift biases of 0.39 and 0.14 with marginal impact on UV luminos...

  6. pop-cosmos: Galaxy size evolution across structural and star-formation classifications in COSMOS-Web

    astro-ph.GA 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    Galaxy size-mass relations exhibit double power-law breaks at different pivot masses for quiescent versus bulge-dominated samples, coinciding with AGN activity scales.

  7. Gamma-ray bursts reveal the history and faint contributors of cosmic reionization

    astro-ph.CO 2026-07 conditional novelty 4.0

    Long gamma-ray bursts imply a higher cosmic star formation rate density at z>6 than galaxy surveys detect, sufficient to drive reionization with moderate ionizing efficiency and escape fraction, implying a large popul...

  8. Far-infrared observations of dust in Ly$\alpha$ emitters at z=2-6

    astro-ph.GA 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 4.0

    Far-IR stacking of ~4000 LAEs at z=2-6 yields detections in massive AGN hosts with low f_esc(Lyα) (1-7%) and higher values (>10%) in undetected stacks, plus elevated IRX relative to typical star-forming galaxies.

  9. Resolving the Hubble Tension in the Early Dark Energy Framework with JWST and DESI Data

    astro-ph.CO 2026-06 unverdicted novelty 4.0

    Axion EDE model fitted to Planck/ACT/SPT CMB, DESI BAO, and JWST UV luminosity function data yields H0 = 71.58 ± 1.05 km s^{-1} Mpc^{-1}, reduces H0 tension to 1.0 sigma, and improves Δχ^{2}_tot = -18.26 over Λ CDM.

  10. First Light And Reionization Epoch Simulations (FLARES) XXI: The UV Indices of Galaxies in the Early Universe

    astro-ph.GA 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 4.0

    Simulations of high-redshift galaxies show the 1719 Å UV index reliably traces stellar metallicity while others are more sensitive to star formation history.