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Accurate astrometric and photometric measurements from Gaia have led to the construction of 3D dust extinction maps which can now be used for estimating the integrated extinctions of Galactic sources located within 5 kpc. These maps based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Snehalata Sahu , Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay , Rosine Lallement , Seth Redfield , Boris T. Gaensicke

We present a scheme for using stellar catalogues to map the three-dimensional distributions of extinction and dust within our Galaxy. Extinction is modelled as a Gaussian random field, whose covariance function is set by a simple physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 S. E. Sale , J. Magorrian

We present new three-dimensional (3D) interstellar extinction maps in the $V$ and Gaia $G$ filters within 2 kpc of the Sun, a 3D differential extinction (dust spatial distribution density) map along the lines of sight in the same space, a…

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

Three dimensional interstellar extinction maps provide a powerful tool for stellar population analysis. We use data from the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea survey together with the Besan\c{c}on stellar population synthesis model of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Schultheis , B. Q. Chen , B. W. Jiang , O. A. Gonzalez , R. Enokiya , Y. Fukui , K. Torii , M. Rejkuba , D. Minniti

Dust extinction is one of the most reliable tracers of the gas distribution in the Milky Way. The near-infrared (NIR) Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey enables extinction mapping based on stellar photometry over a large area in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 Miaomiao Zhang , Jouni Kainulainen

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

A large-scale three-dimensional model of Galactic extinction is presented based on the Galactic dust distribution model of Drimmel and Spergel (2001). The extinction A_V to any point within the Galactic disk can be quickly deduced using a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Drimmel , A. Cabrera-Lavers , M. Lopez-Corredoira

Three-dimensional (3D) maps of Galactic interstellar dust are a tool for a wide range of uses. We aim to construct 3D maps of dust extinction in the Local Arm and surrounding regions. Gaia EDR3 photometric data were combined with 2MASS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 R. Lallement , J. -L. Vergely , C. Babusiaux , N. L. J. Cox

We present a new two-dimensional (2D) map of total Galactic extinction, $A_\mathrm{V}$, across the entire dust half-layer from the Sun to extragalactic space for Galactic latitudes $|b|>13$ deg, as well as a three-dimensional (3D) map of…

3D maps of the extinction density in the Galaxy can be built through the inversion of catalogues of distance-extinction pairs for individual target stars. The spatial resolution of the maps that can be achieved increases with the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 J. L. Vergely , R. Lallement , N. L. J. Cox

Using a grid of empirically calibrated synthetic spectra developed in our previous study, we construct an all-sky 3D extinction map from the large collection of low-resolution XP spectra in Gaia DR3. Along each line of sight, with an area…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-27 Deokkeun An , Timothy C. Beers , Anirudh Chiti

Cosmological surveys must correct their observations for the reddening of extragalactic objects by Galactic dust. Existing dust maps, however, have been found to have spatial correlations with the large-scale structure of the Universe.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Nayantara Mudur , Core Francisco Park , Douglas P Finkbeiner

We present a three-dimensional (3D) extinction map of the southern sky. The map covers the SkyMapper Southern Survey (SMSS) area of $\sim$ 14,000 ${\rm deg^{2}}$ and has spatial resolutions between 6.9 and 27 arcmin. Based on the multi-band…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-13 H. -L. Guo , B. -Q. Chen , H. -B. Yuan , Y. Huang , D. -Z Liu , Y. Yang , X. -Y. Li , W. -X. Sun , X. -W. Liu

We map the distribution of dust in M31 at 25pc resolution, using stellar photometry from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury. We develop a new mapping technique that models the NIR color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of red giant branch…

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

We present three dimensional maps in monochromatic extinction $A_{\rm 0}$ and the extinction parameter $R_0$ within a few degrees of the Galactic plane. These are inferred using photometry from the Pan-STARRS1 and Spitzer Glimpse surveys of…

Three-dimensional dust density maps are crucial for understanding the structure of the interstellar medium of the Milky Way and the processes that shape it. However, constructing these maps requires large datasets and the methods used to…

We have created new dust temperature and column density maps of Perseus, Ophiuchus and Serpens using 60 and 100 micron data from the IRIS recalibration of IRAS data. We describe an optimized method for finding the dust temperature,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Scott L. Schnee , Naomi A. Ridge , Alyssa A. Goodman , Jason G. Li

Dust plays a critical role in the study of the interstellar medium (ISM). Extinction maps derived from optical surveys often fail to capture regions with high column density due to the limited photometric depth in optical wavelengths. To…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-17 Miaomiao Zhang , Jouni Kainulainen , He Zhao , Yang Su , Min Fang , Yuehui Ma , Zhiwei Chen , Zhibo Jiang
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