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An Updated Dust-to-Star Geometry: Dust Attenuation Does Not Depend on Inclination in 1.3 ≤z ≤2.6 Star-forming Galaxies from MOSDEF

  • Authors: Brian Lorenz, Mariska Kriek, Alice E. Shapley, Naveen A. Reddy, Ryan L. Sanders, Guillermo Barro, Alison L. Coil, Bahram Mobasher, Sedona H. Price, Jordan N. Runco, Irene Shivaei, Brian Siana, Daniel R. Weisz

Brian Lorenz et al 2023 The Astrophysical Journal 951 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

Stacked spectra for the eight groups illustrated in Figure 1. We organize the spectra by stellar mass (left: low mass, right: high mass), SFR (bottom: low SFR, top: high SFR), and axis ratio (blue: edge-on, orange: face-on). The continuum has been subtracted for all stacked spectra. The spectra are normalized so they have the same Hα peak flux for visual comparison. It is visible that the lower-mass galaxies (left) have higher normalized Hβ fluxes than the higher-mass galaxies (right), which results in a smaller Balmer decrement for the lower-mass galaxies. We do not observe a clear change in the Balmer decrement with a changing axis ratio for any of the groups.

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