Astronomy & Astrophysics manuscript no. NGC4370arXiv c ESO 2018 October 15, 2018 NGC4370: a case study for testing our ability to infer dust distribution and mass in nearby galaxies S. Viaene1, G. De Geyter1, M. Baes1, J. Fritz1; 2, G.J. Bendo3, M. Boquien4, A. Boselli5, S. Bianchi6, L. Cortese7, P. Côté8, J.-C. Cuillandre9, I. De Looze1; 10, S. di Serego Alighieri6, L. Ferrarese8, S. D. J. Gwyn11, T. M. Hughes1, and C. Pappalardo12 1 Sterrenkundig Observatorium, Universiteit Gent, Krijgslaan 281, B-9000 Gent, Belgium e-mail:
[email protected] 2 Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica, CRyA, UNAM, Campus Morelia, A.P. 3-72, C.P. 58089, Michoacán, Mexico 3 Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK 4 Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK 5 Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille, UMR 6110 CNRS, 38 rue F. Joliot-Curie, F-13388 Marseille, France 6 Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri – INAF, Largo E. Fermi 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy 7 Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Mail H30 – PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia 8 National Research Council of Canada, Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5071 W. Saanich Road, Victoria, BC V9E2E7, Canada 9 Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, 65-1238 Mamalahoa Hwy, Kamuela, HI 96743 USA 10 Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK 11 Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, 5071 West Saanich Rd, Victoria BC, V9E 2E7, Canada 12 Centro de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Universidade de Lisboa, Observatório Astronómico de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-018 Lisbon, Portugal October 15, 2018 ABSTRACT Context.