A redshift-dependent IRX-$\beta$ dust attenuation relation for TNG50 galaxies

Abstract

We study the relation between the UV-slope, $\beta$, and the ratio between the infrared- and UV-luminosities (IRX) of galaxies from TNG50, the latest installment of the IllustrisTNG galaxy formation simulations. We select 7280 star-forming main-sequence (SFMS) galaxies with stellar mass $10^9{M}_{\odot }$ at redshifts $0\le z\le 4$ and perform radiative transfer with SKIRT to model effects of interstellar medium dust on the emitted stellar light. Assuming a Milky Way (MW) dust type and a dust-to-metal ratio of 0.3, we find that TNG50 SFMS galaxies generally agree with observationally-derived IRX-$\beta$ relations at $z\lesssim 1$. However, we find a redshift-dependent systematic offset with respect to empirically-derived local relations, with the TNG50 IRX-$\beta$ relation shifting towards lower $\beta$ and steppening at higher redshifts. This is partially driven by variations in the dust-uncorrected UV-slope of galaxies, due to different star-formation histories of galaxies selected at different cosmic epochs; we suggest the remainder of the effect is caused by differences in the effective dust attenuation curves (EDACs) of galaxies as a function of redshift. We find a typical galaxy-to-galaxy variation of 0.3 dex in IRX at fixed $\beta$, correlated with intrinsic galaxy properties: galaxies with higher star-formation rates, star-formation efficiencies, gas metallicities and stellar masses exhibit larger IRX values. We demonstrate a degeneracy between stellar age, dust geometry and dust composition: $z=4$ galaxies with a Small Magellanic Cloud dust type follow the same IRX-$\beta$ relation as low-redshift galaxies with MW dust. We provide a redshift-dependent fitting function for the IRX-$\beta$ relation for MW dust based on our models.

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