TY - GEN AU - Lisenfeld , Ute AU - Relaño Pastor, Mónica AU - Vílchez, José AU - Battaner López, Eduardo AU - Hermelo, Israel PY - 2008 SN - 1743-9213 SN - 1743-9221 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/28394 AB - We present a study of the extinction, traced by the Balmer decrement, in HII regions in the dwarf galaxies NGC 1569 and NGC 4214. We find that the large-scale extinction around the most prominent HII regions in both galaxies forms a shell in which... LA - eng PB - Cambridge University Press; International Astronomical Union (IAU) KW - ISM KW - Dust KW - Galaxies KW - ISM KW - NGC 1569 KW - NGC 4214 KW - Dwarf TI - Dust properties and distribution in dwarf galaxies DO - 10.1017/S1743921308024915 ER -