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Distribution and Content of Dust in Overlapping Galaxy Systems

Raymond E. White, William C. Keel, Christopher J. Conselice

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9604029

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.

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