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We study the integral Galactic extinction and reddening based on the galaxy catalog of the South Galactic Cap U-band Sky Survey (SCUSS), where $u$ band galaxy number counts and $u-r$ color distribution are used to derive the Galactic…

We used the photometric database of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to estimate the reddening of 13 SDSS quasars selected on the basis of the presence of zinc absorption lines in an intervening Damped Ly alpha (DLA) system. In 5 of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Vladilo , M. Centurion , S. A. Levshakov , C. Peroux , P. Khare , V. P. Kulkarni , D. G. York

Dust in the host galaxies of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) dims and reddens their afterglow spectra. Knowledge of the nature of this dust is crucial for correcting for extinction, providing clues to the nature of GRB progenitors, and probing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Shilun Chen , Aigen Li , Daming Wei

We study the near-infrared (NIR) scattering in LDN 1642, its correlation with the cloud structure, and the ability of dust models to simultaneously explain sub-millimetre emission, NIR extinction, and NIR scattering. We use observations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Mika Juvela , Sharma Neha , Emma Mannfors , Mika Saajasto , Nathalie Ysard , Veli-Matti Pelkonen

We explore red stellar populations toward the W3 giant molecular cloud through the use of optical-to-infrared (IR) photometry and Gaia DR 3 data, simultaneously characterizing stellar content and properties of dust in the molecular medium.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-29 J. L. Campbell , P. G. Martin , S. Song , M. Rahman , L. Einstein

Photodissociation regions (PDRs) are parts of the ISM consisting of predominantly neutral gas, located at the interface between H II regions and molecular clouds. The physical conditions within these regions show variations on very short…

We explore variations of the dust extinction law of the Milky Way by selecting stars from the Swift/UVOT Serendipitous Source Catalogue, cross-matched with Gaia DR2 and 2MASS to produce a sample of 10,452 stars out to ~4kpc with photometry…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-12 I. Ferreras , M. Tress , G. Bruzual , S. Charlot , M. Page , V. Yershov , P. Kuin , D. Kawata , M. Cropper

We describe our custom processing of the entire Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) 12 micron imaging data set, and present a high-resolution, full-sky map of diffuse Galactic dust emission that is free of compact sources and other…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Aaron Meisner , Douglas Finkbeiner

We analyze the multi-wavelength photometric and spectroscopic data of 12 ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) at z ~ 1 and compare them with models of stars and dust in order to study the extinction law and star formation in young…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 T. Shimizu , K. Kawara , H. Sameshima , N. Ienaka , T. Nozawa , T. Kozasa

Although it is well recognized that gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows are obscured and reddened by dust in their host galaxies, the wavelength-dependence and quantity of dust extinction are still poorly known. Current studies on this mostly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Aigen Li , S. L. Liang , D. A. Kann , D. M. Wei , S. Klose , Y. J. Wang

We use SDSS photometry of 73 million stars to simultaneously obtain best-fit main-sequence stellar energy distribution (SED) and amount of dust extinction along the line of sight towards each star. Using a subsample of 23 million stars with…

We present a (V-R)-based reddening map of about 43 square degrees of the Galactic bulge/bar. The map is constructed using template image photometry from the MACHO microlensing survey, contains 9717 resolution elements, and is based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Piotr Popowski , Kem Cook , Andrew Becker

We present three 14400 square degree relative extinction maps of the Galactic Plane (|b|<20degrees) obtained from 2MASS using accumulative star counts (Wolf diagrams). This method is independent of the colour of the stars and the variation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Froebrich , T. P. Ray , G. C. Murphy , A. Scholz

We provide new, high-resolution A(Ks) extinction maps of the heavily reddened Galactic midplane based on the Rayleigh-Jeans Color Excess ("RJCE") method. RJCE determines star-by-star reddening based on a combination of near- and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 David L. Nidever , Gail Zasowski , Steven R. Majewski

By analyzing the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of resolved stars in nearby galaxies, we can constrain their stellar properties and line-of-sight dust extinction. From the Scylla survey, we obtain ultraviolet to near-infrared…

We investigate the properties of the extinction curve in the rest-frame UV for a sample of 34 UV-luminous galaxies at 2 < z < 2.5, selected from the FORS Deep Field (FDF) spectroscopic survey. A new parametric description of the rest-frame…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Noll , D. Pierini

We present a new three-dimensional map of dust reddening, based on Gaia parallaxes and stellar photometry from Pan-STARRS 1 and 2MASS. This map covers the sky north of a declination of -30 degrees, out to a distance of several kiloparsecs.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Gregory M. Green , Edward F. Schlafly , Catherine Zucker , Joshua S. Speagle , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

The extinction curve of interstellar dust in the dense molecular cloud cores is crucial for understanding dust properties, particularly size distribution and composition. We investigate the infrared extinction law in four nearby isolated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-04 Jun Li , Bingqiu Chen , Biwei Jiang , He Zhao , Botao Jiang , Xi Chen

We present a new, high resolution (5" per pixel) near-infrared extinction map of the Nuclear Bulge using data from the UKIDSS-GPS. Using photometry from the J, H and K-bands we show that the extinction law parameter is also highly variable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 Andrew J. Gosling , Katherine M. Blundell , Reba M. Bandyopadhyay , Phil Lucas

We have derived the dust emissivity in the Far-Infrared (FIR) using data available in the literature. We use two wavelength dependences derived from spectra of Galactic FIR emission (Reach et al. 1995). A value for the emissivity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simone Bianchi , Jonathan I. Davies , Paul B. Alton