The First Maps of ${\kappa }_d$ -- the Dust Mass Absorption Coefficient -- in Nearby Galaxies, with DustPedia

Christopher J. R. Clark, Pieter De Vis, Maarten Baes +17

The dust mass absorption coefficient, ${\kappa }_d$, is the conversion function used to infer physical dust masses from observations of dust emission. However, it is notoriously poorly c…