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Scylla: Observational Evidence for an Order of Magnitude in Dust Mass Opacity Evolution with ISM Density in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Christina W. Lindberg, Christopher J. R. Clark, Claire E. Murray +11
The emissivity of dust is known to vary greatly with radiative environment, density, grain chemistry, and geometry. Discrepancies between dust mass surface densities derived from f…
Scylla VI: Parsec-Scale Dust Extinction Maps in the SMC and LMC
Christina W. Lindberg, Claire E. Murray, Christopher J. R. Clark +14
We present a novel methodology for mapping dust extinction in nearby galaxies at parsec-scale resolution. We apply it to HST 68 fields within the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds…
Growth of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Dust Particles in the Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy Sextans A
Elizabeth J. Tarantino, Julia Roman-Duval, Karin M. Sandstrom +17
The mid-infrared spectrum of star-forming, high metallicity galaxies is dominated by emission features from aromatic and aliphatic bonds in small carbonaceous dust grains, often re…
Scylla V: Constraints on the spatial and temporal distribution of bursts and the interaction history of the Magellanic Clouds from their resolved stellar populations
Clare Burhenne, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Roger E. Cohen +9
We measure the star formation histories (SFHs) from the Scylla survey in approximately 98,000 pc^2 and 75,000 pc^2 of the SMC and LMC, respectively, using deep Hubble Space Telesco…
Nature or Nurture: LMC-like Dust in the Solar Metallicity Galaxy M31
Geoffrey C. Clayton, Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones, Karl D. Gordon +6
Using the {\it Hubble Space Telescope}/Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, ultraviolet (UV) extinction curves have been measured in M31 along thirteen new sightlines, increasing…
Investigating silicate, carbon, and water in the diffuse interstellar medium: the first shots from WISCI
S. T. Zeegers, Jonathan P. Marshall, Karl D. Gordon +33
The dusty interstellar medium (ISM) of the Milky Way is distributed in a complex, cloudy structure. It is fundamental to the radiation balance within the Milky Way, provides a reac…
Detection of Deuterated Hydrocarbon Nanoparticles in the Whirlpool Galaxy, M51
B. T. Draine, Karin Sandstrom, Daniel A. Dale +29
Deuteration of hydrocarbon material, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), has been proposed to account for the low gas-phase abundances of D in the interstellar mediu…
The Local Ultraviolet to Infrared Treasury II. Refining Star Formation Histories of Ten Metal-Poor Dwarf Galaxies with Simultaneous UV-Optical Two-CMD Fitting
Yumi Choi, Karoline M. Gilbert, Benjamin F. Williams +10
We present the star formation histories (SFHs) of ten metal-poor (<12% Zsun), star-forming dwarf galaxies from the Local Ultraviolet to Infrared Treasury (LUVIT) survey. The derive…
A Catalog of Stellar and Dust Properties for 500,000 Stars in the Southwest Bar of the Small Magellanic Cloud
Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones, Karl Gordon, Karin Sandstrom +8
We present a catalog of individual stellar and dust extinction properties along close to 500,000 sight lines in the southwest bar of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The catalog i…
A first taste of MEAD (Measuring Extinction and Abundances of Dust) -- I. Diffuse Milky Way interstellar dust extinction features in JWST infrared spectra
Marjorie Decleir, Karl D. Gordon, Karl A. Misselt +3
We present the initial results of MEAD (Measuring Extinction and Abundances of Dust), with a focus on the dust extinction features observed in our JWST near- and mid-infrared spect…
Scylla III. The Outside-In Radial Age Gradient in the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Star Formation Histories of the Main Body, Wing and Outer Regions
Roger E. Cohen, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Claire E. Murray +13
The proximity of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) provides the opportunity to study the impact of dwarf-dwarf interactions on their mass assembly with a unique l…
Scylla II. The Spatially Resolved Star Formation History of the Large Magellanic Cloud Reveals an Inverted Radial Age Gradient
Roger E. Cohen, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, Claire E. Murray +11
The proximity of the Magellanic Clouds provides the opportunity to study interacting dwarf galaxies near a massive host, and spatial trends in their stellar population properties i…
Scylla I: A pure-parallel, multi-wavelength imaging survey of the ULLYSES fields in the LMC and SMC
Claire E. Murray, Christina W. Lindberg, Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones +17
Scylla is a deep Hubble Space Telescope survey of the stellar populations, interstellar medium and star formation in the LMC and SMC. As a pure-parallel complement to the Ultraviol…
The Resolved Behavior of Dust Mass, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Fraction, and Radiation Field in ~ 800 Nearby Galaxies
Jérémy Chastenet, Karin M. Sandstrom, Adam K. Leroy +8
We present resolved m dust spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting for nearby galaxies. We measure the distribution of radiation field intensities heating…
The Local Ultraviolet to Infrared Treasury I. Survey Overview of the Broadband Imaging
Karoline M. Gilbert, Yumi Choi, Martha L. Boyer +21
The Local Ultraviolet to Infrared Treasury (LUVIT) is a Hubble Space Telescope program that combines newly acquired data in the near ultraviolet (NUV), optical, and near infrared (…
Scylla IV: Intrinsic Stellar Properties and Line-of-Sight Dust Extinction Measurements Towards 1.5 Million Stars in the SMC and LMC
Christina W. Lindberg, Claire E. Murray, Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones +14
By analyzing the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of resolved stars in nearby galaxies, we can constrain their stellar properties and line-of-sight dust extinction. From the Sc…
The Small Magellanic Cloud Investigation of Dust and Gas Evolution (SMIDGE): The Dust Extinction Curve from Red Clump Stars
Petia Yanchulova Merica-Jones, Karin M. Sandstrom, L. Clifton Johnson +6
We use Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of red clump stars taken as part of the Small Magellanic Cloud Investigation of Dust and Gas Evolution (SMIDGE) program to measure…
Dust emission at 8-mic and 24-mic as Diagnostics of HII Region Radiative Transfer
M. S. Oey, J. Lopez-Hernandez, J. A. Kellar +10
We use the Spitzer SAGE survey of the Magellanic Clouds to evaluate the relationship between the 8-mic PAH emission, 24-mic hot dust emission, and HII region radiative transfer. We…
Updated 34-Band Photometry for the SINGS/KINGFISH Samples of Nearby Galaxies
D. A. Dale, D. O. Cook, H. Roussel +22
We present an update to the ultraviolet-to-radio database of global broadband photometry for the 79 nearby galaxies that comprise the union of the KINGFISH (Key Insights on Nearby…
Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project. III. Photometric Catalog and Resulting Constraints on the Progression of Star Formation in the 30 Doradus Region
E. Sabbi, D. J. Lennon, J. Anderson +21
We present and describe the astro-photometric catalog of more than 800,000 sources found in the Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project (HTTP). HTTP is a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Tre…
Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project: Unraveling Tarantula's Web. I. Observational overview and first results
E. Sabbi, J. Anderson, D. J. Lennon +18
The Hubble Tarantula Treasury Project (HTTP) is an ongoing panchromatic imaging survey of stellar populations in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud that reaches int…
A Study of Heating and Cooling of the ISM in NGC 1097 with Herschel-PACS and Spitzer-IRS
P. Beirao, L. Armus, G. Helou +38
NGC 1097 is a nearby Seyfert 1 galaxy with a bright circumnuclear starburst ring, a strong large-scale bar and an active nucleus. We present a detailed study of the spatial variati…
The Herschel Exploitation of Local Galaxy Andromeda (HELGA) II: Dust and Gas in Andromeda
M. W. L. Smith, S. A. Eales, H. L. Gomez +26
We present an analysis of the dust and gas in Andromeda, using Herschel images sampling the entire far-infrared peak. We fit a modified-blackbody model to ~4000 quasi-independent p…
The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury
J. J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, D. Lang +30
The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) is an on-going HST Multicycle Treasury program to image ~1/3 of M31's star forming disk in 6 filters, from the UV to the NIR. The…