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Dust extinction and reddening are ubiquitous in astronomical observations and are often a major source of systematic uncertainty. We present here a study of the correlation between extinction in the Milky Way and the equivalent width of the…

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Gaia data and stellar surveys open the way to the construction of detailed 3D maps of the Galactic interstellar (IS) dust based on the synthesis of star distances and extinctions. Reliable extinction measurements require very accurate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 R. Lallement , L. Capitanio , L. Ruiz-Dern , C. Danielski , C. Babusiaux , J. L. Vergely , M. Elyajouri , F. Arenou , N. Leclerc

A detailed map of the distribution of dust at high Galactic latitudes is essential for future cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization experiments because the dust, while diffuse, remains a significant foreground in these regions. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-16 Matthew O'Callaghan , Gerry Gilmore , Kaisey S. Mandel

The distribution of visual interstellar extinction $A_V$ has been mapped in selected areas over the Northern sky, using available LAMOST DR5 and Gaia DR2/EDR3 data. $A_V$ was modelled as a barometric function of galactic latitude and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-15 Alexei Nekrasov , Kirill Grishin , Dana Kovaleva , Oleg Malkov

Extinction maps are essential for tracing interstellar dust and enabling accurate stellar population studies in galaxies. Here, a high-resolution extinction distribution of nearby galaxy M33 is constructed by fitting multiband color indexes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-09 Yuxi Wang , Yi Ren , Jian Gao , Bingqiu Chen , Ying Li

Extinction in ultraviolet is much more significant than in optical or infrared, which can be very informative to precisely measure the extinction and understand the dust properties in the low extinction areas. The high Galactic latitude sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-23 Mingxu Sun , Biwei Jiang , Haibo Yuan , Jun Li

We report on a search for new low-surface-brightness galaxies (LSBGs) using Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data within the GAMA equatorial fields. The search method consisted of masking objects detected with SDSS photo, combining gri…

As a major component of the LAMOST Galactic surveys, the LAMOST Spectroscopic Survey of the Galactic Anti-center (LSS-GAC) will survey a significant volume of the Galactic thin/thick disks and halo in a contiguous sky area of ~…

We present a method to estimate and map the two-dimensional distribution of dust extinction in the late-type spiral galaxy NGC 959 from the theoretical and observed flux ratio of optical V and mid-IR (MIR) 3.6 micron images. Our method is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. Tamura , R. A. Jansen , R. A. Windhorst

We present a three dimensional map of extinction in the Northern Galactic Plane derived using photometry from the IPHAS survey. The map has fine angular ($\sim 10$ arcmin) and distance (100 pc) sampling allied to a significant depth…

Inferences about the spatial density or phase-space structure of stellar populations in the Milky Way require a precise determination of the effective survey volume. The volume observed by surveys such as Gaia or near-infrared spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-07 Jo Bovy , Hans-Walter Rix , Gregory M. Green , Edward F. Schlafly , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

We present a set of 6-12 micron ISOPHOT-S spectra of the general interstellar medium of the Milky Way. This part of the spectrum is dominated by a series of strong, wide emission features commonly called the Unidentified Infrared Bands. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Kahanpaa , K. Mattila , K. Lehtinen , C. Leinert , D. Lemke

We propose an improved method for the atmospheric extinction reduction within optical photometry. Our method is based on the simultaneous multicolor observations of photometric standards. Such data are now available within the modern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-06 A. Zakharov , A. Mironov , A. Biryukov , N. Kroussanova , M. Prokhorov , G. Beskin , S. Karpov , S. Bondar , E. Ivanov , A. Perkov , V. Sasyuk

Sky subtraction is the key technique in data reduction of multi-fiber spectra. Knowledge of the related instrument character is necessary to determine the method adopted in sky subtraction. In this study, we described the sky subtraction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Zhong-Rui Bai , Hao-Tong Zhang , Hai-Long Yuan , Guang-Wei Li , Jian-Jun Chen , Ya-Juan Lei , Hui-Qin Yang , Yi-Qiao Dong , Gang Wang , Yong-Heng Zhao

The multiplexing capability of slitless spectroscopy is a powerful asset in creating large spectroscopic datasets, but issues such as spectral confusion make the interpretation of the data challenging. Here we present a new method to search…

3D maps of interstellar dust are crucial for understanding the structure of the Milky Way interstellar medium to apply correction to astrophysical observations affected by dust. We aim at providing new extinction estimates in the Gaia BP/RP…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-18 M. Barbillon , A. Recio-Blanco , P. de Laverny , P. A. Palicio

The standard method of mapping the interstellar medium in a galaxy, by observing the molecular gas in the CO 1-0 line and the atomic gas in the 21-cm line, is largely limited with current telescopes to galaxies in the nearby universe. In…

We propose a new method to search for high-redshift galaxies that is based on an intermediate-band dropout technique rather than the usual broad-band dropout one. In this method, we use an intermediate-band filter whose central wavelength…

Interstellar dust is still the dominant uncertainty in Astronomy, limiting precision in e.g., cosmological distance estimates and models of how light is re-processed within a galaxy. When a foreground galaxy serendipitously overlaps a more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-28 B. W. Holwerda , W. C. Keel

We have constructed a full-sky map of the far-infrared suitable for measuring Galactic reddening and extinction (Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis 1998: SFD). The SFD map is based upon extensive re-analysis of data from the COBE/DIRBE and IRAS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. J. Schlegel , D. P. Finkbeiner , M. Davis