Putting the Diffuse Interstellar Bands on the map - literally!

Jacco Th. van Loon

doi:10.1017/S1743921313015615

Putting the Diffuse Interstellar Bands on the map - literally!

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2015-06-16 v1

Authors: Jacco Th. van Loon

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Abstract

In a quest to further our understanding of the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) as well as the unidentified carriers of the diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs), we are mapping DIBs across the sky using hundreds of hot stars as background torches - globular clusters (in particular omega Centauri), nearby stars in and around the Local Bubble, and stars within the Magellanic Clouds. I describe the results so far obtained and our current experiments.

Keywords

astronomical instrumentation astrophysics and stellar phenomena

Cite

@article{arxiv.1308.3343,
  title  = {Putting the Diffuse Interstellar Bands on the map - literally!},
  author = {Jacco Th. van Loon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3343},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Talk presented at IAU Symposium 297 "The Diffuse Interstellar Bands", CUP proceedings editors: Jan Cami and Nick Cox

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