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Dust extinction is the most robust tracer of the gas distribution in the interstellar medium, but measuring extinction is limited by the systematic uncertainties involved in estimating the intrinsic colors to background stars. In this paper…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Stefan Meingast , Marco Lombardi , Joao Alves

Interstellar dust extinction curves provide valuable information about dust properties, including the composition and size of the dust grains, and are essential to correct observations for the effects of interstellar dust. In this work, we…

We present a method for accurately and precisely inferring photometric dust extinction towards stars at mid-to-high Galactic latitudes using probabilistic machine learning to model the colour-magnitude distribution of zero-extinction stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-15 Matthew O'Callaghan , Kaisey S. Mandel , Gerry Gilmore

We critique the method of constructing extinction curves of lensing galaxies using multiply imaged QSOs. If one of the two QSO images is lightly reddened or if the dust along both sightlines has the same properties then the method works…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christina McGough , Geoffrey C. Clayton , Karl D. Gordon , Michael J. Wolff

The purpose of the investigation is to probe the dust properties inside a molecular cloud, how particle grow and how the presence of ice coatings may change the overall shape of the extinction curve. Field stars can be used to probe the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Sven Olofsson , Göran Olofsson

We have investigated the shape of the extinction curve in the infrared up to ~25 {\mu}m for the Orion A star-forming complex. The basis of this work is near-infrared data acquired with VISTA, in combination with Pan-STARRS and mid-infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-20 Stefan Meingast , João Alves , Marco Lombardi

In many models of dusty objects in space the grains are assumed to be composite or fluffy. However, the computation of the optical properties of such particles is still a very difficult problem. We analyze how the increase of grain porosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. V. Voshchinnikov , V. B. Il'in , Th. Henning , D. N. Dubkova

Employing the Maximum Entropy Method algorithm, we fit interstellar extinction measurements which span the wavelength range 0.125-3 micron. We present a uniform set of MEM model fits, all using the same grain materials, optical constants…

Accurate interpretation of observations relies on the interstellar dust extinction law, which also serves as a powerful diagnostic for probing dust properties. In this study, we investigate the multi-wavelength extinction law of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-14 Juan Deng , Shu Wang , Biwei Jiang , He Zhao

Our aim is to compare the infrared properties of big, ``classical'' dust grains with visual extinction in the cloud L1642. In particular, we study the differences of grain emissivity between diffuse and dense regions in the cloud. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Lehtinen , M. Juvela , K. Mattila , D. Lemke , D. Russeil

Context. Extinction and emission of dust models need for observational constraints to be validated. The coreshine phenomenon has already shown the importance of scattering in the 3 to 5 micron range and its ability to validate dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-06 Charlène Lefèvre , Laurent Pagani , Michiel Min , Charles Poteet , Douglas Whittet

We have studied the interstellar extinction in a field of ~3' x 3' at the core of the 30 Doradus nebula, including the central R136 cluster, in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Observations at optical and near-infrared wavelengths, obtained with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Guido De Marchi , Nino Panagia

Context: Dust grains are key components of the interstellar medium and play a central role in star formation, acting as catalysts for chemical reactions and as building blocks of planets. Extinction curves are essential for characterizing…

We present an extinction map of the inner $\sim$\SI{15}{\arcminute} by {16}{\arcminute} of the Galactic Center (GC) with map `pixels' measuring \SI{5}{\arcsecond} $\times$ \SI{5}{\arcsecond} using integrated light color measurements in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-06 R. Deno Stelter , Stephen S. Eikenberry

Extinction curves, especially those in the Milky Way (MW), the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), have provided us with a clue to the dust properties in the nearby Universe. We examine whether or not these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-22 Kuan-Chou Hou , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Michał J. Michałowski

Context. The largest grains (0.5-1 micron) in the interstellar size distribution are efficient in scattering near- and mid-infrared radiation. These wavelengths are therefore particularly well suited to probe the still uncertain high-end of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Andersen , J. Steinacker , W-F. Thi , L. Pagani , A. Bacmann , R. Paladini

We study the extinction properties of the composite dust grains, consisting of host silicate spheroids and graphite as inclusions, using discrete dipole approximation (DDA). We calculate the extinction cross sections of the composite grains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Nisha Katyal , Ranjan Gupta , D B Vaidya

We report results of a near--infrared imaging survey of L977, a dark cloud in Cygnus seen in projection against the plane of the Milky Way. We use measurements of the near--infrared color excess and positions of the 1628 brightest stars in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Alves , C. Lada , E. Lada , S. Kenyon , R. Phelps

We present an optical-to-X-ray spectral analysis of the afterglow of GRB 020405. The optical spectral energy distribution not corrected for the extragalactic extinction is significantly below the X-ray extrapolation of the single powerlaw…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Stratta , R. Perna , D. Lazzati , F. Fiore , L. A. Antonelli , M. L. Conciatore

The dust extinction curves toward individual sight lines in M33 are derived for the first time with a sample of reddened O-type and B-type supergiants obtained from the LGGS. The observed photometric data are obtained from the LGGS, PS1…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 Yuxi Wang , Jian Gao , Yi Ren , Bingqiu Chen