Distribution and Content of Dust in Overlapping Galaxy Systems

Abstract

Partially overlapping galaxies are used to directly determine the effective absorption in spiral galaxy disks. The non-overlapping parts of the galaxies and symmetry considerations are used to reconstruct, via differential photometry, how much background galaxy light is lost in passing through the foreground disks.

4 PostScript pages; to appear in proceedings of "Dust-Morphology" Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, 22-26 January 1996, ed. D. Block (Dordrecht: Kluwer); also available with 3 PostScript figures at http://www.astr.ua.edu/preprints/white/

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