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The availability of large datasets containing stellar parameters, distances, and extinctions for stars in the Milky Way, particularly within the Galactic disk, is essential for advancing our understanding of the Galaxy's stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 Mingxu Sun , Bingqiu Chen , Baokun Sun , Tao Wang , Zheng Yu , Baisong Zhang , Lin Zhang , Yuxi Bao , Guangya Zeng , Ming Yang , Wenyuan Cui

We present "augustus", a catalog of distance, extinction, and stellar parameter estimates to 170 million stars from $14\,{\rm mag} < r < 20\,{\rm mag}$ and with $|b| > 10^\circ$ drawing on a combination of optical to near-IR photometry from…

We present new data taken at 850 $\mu$m with SCUBA at the JCMT for a sample of 19 luminous infrared galaxies. Fourteen galaxies were detected. We have used these data, together with fluxes at 25, 60 and 100 $\mu$m from IRAS, to model the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Lisenfeld , K. G. Isaak , R. Hills

By combining the photometric, spectroscopic, and astrometric information of the stars in the sightline of SNRs, the distances to and the extinctions of 32 Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) are investigated. The stellar atmospheric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 He Zhao , Biwei Jiang , Jun Li , Bingqiu Chen , Bin Yu , Ye Wang

We present an extinction map of a ~1,700 deg sq region that encloses the Ophiuchus, the Lupus, and the Pipe dark complexes using 42 million stars from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) point source catalog. The use of a robust and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-23 Marco Lombardi , Charles J. Lada , Joao Alves

We have studied the interstellar extinction in a field of 3' x 3' located about 6' SW of 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Hubble Space Telescope observations in the U, B, V, I and Halpha bands reveal patchy extinction in this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Guido De Marchi , Nino Panagia , Leo Girardi

We map the dust distribution in the central 180" (~680 pc) region of the M31 bulge, based on HST/WFC3 and ACS observations in ten bands from near-ultraviolet (2700 A) to near-infrared (1.5 micron). This large wavelength coverage gives us…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 Hui Dong , Zhiyuan Li , Q. D. Wang , Tod R. Lauer , Knut A. G. Olsen , Abhijit Saha , Julianne J. Dalcanton , Brent A. Groves

Based on the accurate color excess $E_{\rm G_{BP},G_{RP}}$ of more than 4 million stars and $E_{\rm NUV,G_{BP}}$ of more than 1 million stars from \citet{2021ApJS..254...38S}, the distance and the extinction of the molecular clouds in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Mingxu Sun , Biwei Jiang , He Zhao , Yi Ren

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

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 an algorithm ({\scshape mead}, for `Mapping Extinction Against Distance') which will determine intrinsic ($r' - i'$) colour, extinction, and distance for early-A to K4 stars extracted from the IPHAS $r'/i'/\Halpha$ photometric…

The high cosmological precision offered by the next generation of galaxy surveys hinges on improved corrections for Galactic dust extinction. We explore the possibility of estimating both the dust extinction and large-scale structure from a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Matías Bravo , Eric Gawiser , Nelson D. Padilla , Joseph DeRose , Risa H. Wechsler , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

The earliest phases of massive star formation are found in cold and dense infrared dark clouds (IRDCs). Since the detection method of IRDCs is very sensitive to the local properties of the background emission, we present here an alternative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 K. L. J. Rygl , F. Wyrowski , F. Schuller , K. M. Menten

We present an analysis of the dust optical properties at large scale, for the whole galactic anticenter hemisphere. We used the 2MASS Extended Source Catalog to obtain the total reddening on each galaxy line of sight and we compared this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-19 L. Cambresy , T. H. Jarrett , C. A. Beichman

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

Neutral hydrogen (HI) emission closely traces the dust column density at high Galactic latitudes and is thus a powerful tool for predicting dust extinction. However, the relation between HI column density $N_{\rm HI}$ and high-latitude dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-28 Yun-Ting Cheng , Brandon S. Hensley , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré

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…

Aims. We aim to map the 3D distribution of the interstellar extinction of the Milky Way disk up to distances larger than those probed with the Gaia parallax alone. Methods. We apply the FEDReD (Field Extinction-Distance Relation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-16 C. Hottier , C. Babusiaux , F. Arenou

Using near infrared UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey data, we make extinction measurements to individual stars along the same line of sight as molecular clouds. Using an existing 3D extinction map of the inner Galaxy, that provides line of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 J. J. Stead , M. G. Hoare

The dust extinction curve is typically parameterized by a single variable, R(V), in optical and near-infrared wavelengths. R(V) controls the slope of the extinction-vs.-wavelength curve, and is thought to reflect the grain-size distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-26 Gregory M. Green , Xiangyu Zhang , Ruoyi Zhang