STScI Preprint #1262

Dust in Star-Forming Galaxies

I review the effects of dust obscuration in galaxies at both low and high redshifts, and briefly discuss a method to remove dust reddening from the emerging light of star-forming galaxies. I also analyze the evolution of the dust opacity in galaxies as a function of redshift, and discuss its effect on the observed UV-optical light. The quantitative corrections for dust obscuration given here allow one to recover the intrinsic value of the global star formation at different cosmological times.

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To appear in: the proceedings of the 23rd Moriond Astrophysics Meeting, Dwarf Galaxies and Cosmology, held 14-20 March 1998 in Les Arcs 1800, France

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Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA