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We present a dust-column--dependent extinction curve parameters for ultraviolet wavelengths at high Galactic latitudes. This extinction function diverges from previous work in that it takes into account the results of Peek & Schiminovich…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-11-14 J. E. G. Peek

We use spectra of more than 56,000 M dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to create a high-latitude extinction map of the local Galaxy. Our technique compares spectra from the stars in the SDSS Data Release 7 M dwarf sample in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 David O. Jones , Andrew A. West , Jonathan B. Foster

One of the major challenges we face is how to quickly and accurately create the three-dimensional (3D) density distributions of interstellar dust in the Milky Way using extinction and distance measurements of large samples of stars. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-20 Bingqiu Chen , Fei Qin , Guangxing Li

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

The effects of dust extinction on the departure from axi-symmetry in the morphology of planetary nebulae (PNs) are investigated through a comparison of the radio free-free emission and hydrogen recombination line images. The dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. -H. Lee , S. Kwok

Precise correction of dust reddening is fundamental to obtain the intrinsic parameters of celestial objects. The Schlegel et al. (SFD) and the Planck 2D extinction maps are widely used for the reddening correction. In this work, using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-16 Yang Sun , Haibo Yuan , Bingqiu Chen

Studies of the properties of the inner Galactic Bulge depend strongly on the assumptions about the interstellar extinction. Most of the extinction maps available in the literature lack the information about the distance. We combine the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Q. Chen , M. Schultheis , B. W. Jiang , O. A. Gonzalez , A. C. Robin , M. Rejkuba , D. Minniti

We are studying the column density distribution of all nearby giant molecular clouds. As part of this project we generated several all sky extinction maps. They are calculated using the median near infrared colour excess technique applied…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Rowles , D. Froebrich

Extinction remains one of the most reliable methods of measuring column density of nearby Galactic interstellar clouds. The current and ongoing near-infrared surveys enable the mapping of extinction over large sky areas. We produce allsky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 M. Juvela , J. Montillaud

A sample of local galaxies for which far infrared and uv fluxes are available is used to estimate the characteristic dust extinction in galaxies and to test whether standard dust properties are plausible. Assuming galaxies can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Rowan-Robinson

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 extinction curves that include data down to far ultraviolet wavelengths (FUV; 1050 - 1200 A) for nine Galactic sight lines. The FUV extinction was measured using data from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer. The sight…

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

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

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

High-resolution 3D maps of interstellar dust are critical for probing the underlying physics shaping the structure of the interstellar medium, and for foreground correction of astrophysical observations affected by dust. We aim to construct…

The three-dimensional extinction and structure are studied for the Taurus, Orion, Perseus and California molecular clouds based on the LAMOST spectroscopy. Stellar color excess is calculated with the intrinsic color index derived from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Zhetai Cao , Biwei Jiang , He Zhao , Mingxu Sun

The large majority of extinction sight lines in our Galaxy obey a simple relation depending on one parameter, the total-to-selective extinction coefficient, Rv. Different values of Rv are able to match the whole extinction curve through…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Paola Mazzei , Guido Barbaro

The Two Micron All Sky Survey, along with the Stellar Population Synthesis Model of the Galaxy, developed in Besancon, is used to calculate the extinction distribution along different lines of sight. By combining many lines of sight, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-08 D. J. Marshall , A. C. Robin , C. Reyle , M. Schultheis , S. Picaud

Analysis of galaxies with overlapping images offers a direct way to probe the distribution of dust extinction and its effects on the background light. We present a catalog of 1990 such galaxy pairs selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 William C. Keel , Anna Manning , Benne W. Holwerda , Massimo Mezzoprete , Chris J. Lintott , Kevin Schawinski , Pamela Gay , Karen L. Masters