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On the D́ust content of nearby galaxies |
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| Authors: | Issa Ali Mohammed Issa |
| Abstract: | By inspection of photographs of the Hubble Atlas of Galaxies the frequency distribution of the sizes of dark cloud complexes in the four nearby galaxies NGC 3031, 5128, 5194 and 5457 is derived and the total amount of dust in these systems is estimated. The frequency distribution of the clouds is nearly the same in all the considered galaxies and may be approximated by n(R) ∼ e−kR, k ≈︂ 0.050 pc−1. The total amount of dust yields to roughly 106M⊙. |
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