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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 714, Issue 1, Pages L113-L117Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/714/1/L113
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cosmology: observations; dust, extinction; galaxies: spiral; surveys
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- Swiss National Science Foundation
- DFG [SCHI 536/3-2]
- NASA [HST-GO-09822]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [PP/E006450/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [PP/E006450/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We compare the surface brightness-inclination relation for a sample of COSMOS pure disk galaxies at z similar to 0.7 with an artificially redshifted sample of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) disks well matched to the COSMOS sample in terms of rest-frame photometry and morphology, as well as their selection and analysis. The offset between the average surface brightness of face-on and edge-on disks in the redshifted SDSS sample matches that predicted by measurements of the optical depth of galactic disks in the nearby universe. In contrast, large disks at z similar to 0.7 have a virtually flat surface brightness-inclination relation, suggesting that they are more opaque than their local counterparts. This could be explained by either an increased amount of optically thick material in disks at higher redshift or a different spatial distribution of the dust.
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