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Using over a million and a half extragalactic spectra we study the properties of the mysterious Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) in the Milky Way. These data provide us with an unprecedented sampling of the skies at high Galactic-latitude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Dalya Baron , Dovi Poznanski , Darach Watson , Yushu Yao , J. Xavier Prochaska

We map the distribution and properties of the Milky Way's interstellar medium as traced by diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) detected in near-infrared stellar spectra from the SDSS-III/APOGEE survey. Focusing exclusively on the strongest…

We use star, galaxy and quasar spectra taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to map out the distribution of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) induced by the Milky Way. We show that, after carefully removing the intrinsic spectral energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-10 Ting-Wen Lan , Brice Ménard , Guangtun Zhu

The systematic analysis of the correlations between diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) is extended to weak DIBs through the comprehensive catalogue of the Apache Peak Observatory (APO) of 559 DIBs in 25 lines of sight with diverse…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-04 Alain Omont

Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) are non-stellar weak absorption features of unknown origin found in the spectra of stars viewed through one or several clouds of Interstellar Medium (ISM). Research of DIBs outside the Milky Way is…

The Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) are absorption features seen in the spectra of astronomical objects, that arise in the interstellar medium. Today more than 500 DIBs have been observed mostly in the optical and near-infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-11 Leander Schlarmann , Bernard Foing , Jan Cami , Haoyu Fan

We present high-resolution echelle spectroscopic observations of the two near- infrared (NIR) Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) at 13175 A and 11797.5 A. The DIBs have been observed in a number of diffuse interstellar medium sightlines that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 M. G. Rawlings , A. J. Adamson , T. H. Kerr

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are broad absorption features measured in sightlines probing the diffuse interstellar medium. Although large carbon-bearing molecules have been proposed as the carriers producing DIBs, their identity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 M. C. Ramírez-Tannus , N. L. J. Cox , L. Kaper , A. de Koter

We used 3D maps of 862nm DIB equivalent width (EW) and extinction, DIB catalogues, and measured parameters of dust extinction law and dust emission to study relationships between DIB and extinction level, total-to-selective extinction ratio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-30 R. Lallement , J. L. Vergely , N. L. J. Cox

We constrain the light extinction properties of Milky Way dust. We investigated the correlations between dust column density as inferred from infrared data and the observed colours of celestial objects at cosmological distances with low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Edvard Mortsell

More than 500 diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) have been observed in astronomical spectra, and their signatures and correlations in different environments have been studied over the past decades to reveal clues about the nature of the…

A large number of interstellar absorption features at ~ 4000\AA\ -- 1.8 {\mu}m, known as the "diffuse interstellar bands" (DIBs), remains unidentified. Most recent works relate them to large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 F. Y. Xiang , Aigen Li , J. X. Zhong

Understanding variations in the dust extinction curve is imperative for using dust as a tracer of local structure in the interstellar medium, understanding dust chemistry, and observational color corrections where dust is a nuisance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-11 Andrew K. Saydjari , Gregory M. Green

We have investigated the behaviour of three strong near-infrared diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) at {\lambda}13177 {\AA}, {\lambda}14680 {\AA}, and {\lambda}15272 {\AA}, on a larger sample of sightlines and over a wider range of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-28 R. Castellanos , F. Najarro , M. Garcia , L. R. Patrick , T. R. Geballe

We report the detection of the Diffuse Interstellar Bands (``$DIBs$'') in the optical spectra of seven far-infrared-selected starburst galaxies. The $\lambda$6283.9 \AA and $\lambda$ 5780.5 \AA features are detected with equivalent widths…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Timothy M. Heckman , Matthew D. Lehnert

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) hold a lot of information about the state and the structure of the ISM. Structure can most directly be observed by extensive spectroscopic surveys, including surveys of stars where DIBs are especially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-10 Janez Kos

ABRIDGED: Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are faint spectral absorption features of unknown origin. Research on DIBs beyond the Local Group (LG) will surely blossom in the era of the ELTs. A possibility that needs to be explored is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-18 Ana Monreal-Ibero , Peter M. Weilbacher , Martin Wendt

One way to better apprehend the problem of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) is to search for correlations between the bands in a large sample of spectra towards various lines of sight: a strict correlation may imply that a common carrier…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Moutou , J. Krelowski , L. d'Hendecourt , J. Jamroszczak

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are weak absorption features of interstellar origin present in the optical and infrared spectra of stars. Their use as a tool to trace the structure of the Galactic ISM is gaining relevance in the recent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-19 A. Monreal-Ibero , R. Lallement , L. Puspitarini , P. Bonifacio , L. Monaco

We divide some of the observed diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) into families which appear to have spectral structures of single species. Three different methods are applied to separate such families, exploring the best approach for future…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bogdan Wszolek , Wlodzimierz Godlowski
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