The Nuclear Bulge extinction

Andrew J. Gosling; Katherine M. Blundell; Reba M. Bandyopadhyay; Phil Lucas

doi:10.1063/1.2945029

The Nuclear Bulge extinction

Astrophysics 2011-04-11 v1

Authors: Andrew J. Gosling , Katherine M. Blundell , Reba M. Bandyopadhyay , Phil Lucas

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Abstract

We present a new, high resolution (5" per pixel) near-infrared extinction map of the Nuclear Bulge using data from the UKIDSS-GPS. Using photometry from the J, H and K-bands we show that the extinction law parameter is also highly variable in this region on similar scales to the absolute extinction. We show that only when this extinction law variation is taken into account can the extinction be measured consistently at different wavelengths.

Keywords

interstellar dust extinction nuclear physics

Cite

@article{arxiv.0806.4124,
  title  = {The Nuclear Bulge extinction},
  author = {Andrew J. Gosling and Katherine M. Blundell and Reba M. Bandyopadhyay and Phil Lucas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.4124},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

3 pages, 2 figures, published in the proceedings of "A population Explosion", AIP Conference Proceedings Volume 1010, pp. 168-170

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