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Title:
The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: the B-band attenuation of bulge and disc light and the implied cosmic dust and stellar mass densities
Authors:
Driver, Simon P.; Popescu, Cristina C.; Tuffs, Richard J.; Liske, Jochen; Graham, Alister W.; Allen, Paul D.; de Propris, Roberto
Affiliation:
AA(Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS), AB(Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany), AC(Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany), AD(European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany), AE(Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia), AF(Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS), AG(Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile)
Publication:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 379, Issue 3, pp. 1022-1036. (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
08/2007
Origin:
MNRAS
MNRAS Keywords:
dust, extinction , galaxies: fundamental parameters , galaxies: photometry , galaxies: spiral , galaxies: structure
Abstract Copyright:
(c) 2007 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2007 RAS
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11862.x
Bibliographic Code:
2007MNRAS.379.1022D

Abstract

Based on our sample of 10095 galaxies with bulge-disc decompositions we derive the empirical BMGC-band internal attenuation-inclination relation for galaxy discs and their associated central bulges. Our results agree well with the independently derived dust models of Tuffs et al., leading to a direct constraint on the mean opacity of spiral discs of τfB = 3.8 +/- 0.7 (central face-on BMGC-band opacity). Depending on inclination, the BMGC-band attenuation correction varies from 0.2 to 1.1 mag for discs and from 0.8 to 2.6 mag for bulges. We find that, overall, 37 per cent of all BMGC-band photons produced in discs in the nearby Universe are absorbed by dust, a figure that rises to 71 per cent for bulge photons. The severity of internal dust extinction is such that one must incorporate internal dust corrections in all optical studies of large galaxy samples. This is particularly pertinent for optical Hubble Space Telescope comparative evolutionary studies as the dust properties will also be evolving. We use the new results to revise our recent estimates of the spheroid and disc luminosity functions. The implied stellar mass densities at redshift zero are somewhat higher than our earlier estimates: ρdiscs = (3.8 +/- 0.6) -> (4.4 +/- 0.6) × 108hMsolar Mpc-3 and ρbulges = (1.6 +/- 0.4) -> (2.2 +/- 0.4) × 108hMsolar Mpc-3. From our best-fitting dust models we derive a redshift zero cosmic dust density of ρdust ~ (5.3 +/- 1.7) × 105hMsolar Mpc-3. This implies that (0.0083 +/- 0.0027)h per cent of the baryons in the Universe are in the form of dust and (11.9 +/- 1.7)h per cent (Salpeter-`lite' initial mass function) are in the form of stars (~58 per cent reside in galaxy discs, ~10 per cent in red elliptical galaxies, ~29 per cent in classical galaxy bulges and the remainder in low-luminosity blue spheroid systems/components).
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