title: The GALEX-GAMA Survey and its  Application to the Statistical Inference of  the Attenuation of Starlight by Dust in  Spiral Galaxies  
creator: Andrae, Ellen 
subject: 520
subject: 520 Astronomy and allied sciences
description: This thesis describes a new widefield survey of the UV broadband emission from  a complete flux-limited sample of galaxies in the local Universe conducted with  the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX). I develop techniques to reliably measure  UV photometry from galaxies catalogued in the Galaxy and Mass Assembly  (GAMA) spectroscopic survey, accounting for the influence of varying UV background,  neighbouring sources and measurement artefacts. I also develop the framework  for a statistical technique for the inference of the intrinsic UV emission of  stars in the population of spiral galaxies, correcting for the effects of attenuation of  UV light by dust in flux-limited samples. This technique incorporates for the first  time an explicit treatment of the dependency of the attenuation on orientation,  size, and morphology of the galaxies. This is a prerequisite for the use of the UV  data to infer the present and past evolution of local Universe galaxies from the  UV-optical photometry.
date: 2014
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/17122/1/Ellen_Andrae_Dissertation.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00017122
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-171224
identifier:   Andrae, Ellen   (2014) The GALEX-GAMA Survey and its Application to the Statistical Inference of the Attenuation of Starlight by Dust in Spiral Galaxies.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/17122/
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language: eng