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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…

3D tomography of the interstellar dust and gas may be useful in many respects, from the physical and chemical evolution of the ISM itself to foreground decontamination of the CMB, or various studies of the environments of specific objects.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Jean-Luc Vergely , Bernard Valette , Rosine Lallement , Severine Raimond

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are absorption features seen in optical and infrared spectra of stars that are probably caused by large and complex molecules in the ISM. Here we investigate the Galactic distribution and properties of two…

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

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 comprehensive 3D dust reddening map covering the entire Milky Way, constructed by combining reddening estimates based on LAMOST low-resolution spectra (E(B$-$V)$_{\rm LAMOST}$) with those derived from $Gaia$ XP spectra…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-10 Tao Wang , Haibo Yuan , Bingqiu Chen , Maosheng Xiang , Ruoyi Zhang , Bowen Huang , Hongrui Gu , Shuaicong Wang , Jiawei Li

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

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

Interstellar extinction is a major obstacle in determining accurate stellar parameters from photometry near the Galactic disk. It is especially true for globular clusters at low galactic latitudes, which suffer from significant amounts of,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-05 Csilla Kalup , László Molnár

Extragalactic astronomy relies on the accurate estimation of source photometry corrected for Milky Way dust extinction. This has motivated the creation of a number of "Galactic" dust maps. We investigate whether these maps are contaminated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 Yi-Kuan Chiang , Brice Ménard

Inversion of interstellar gas or dust columns measured along the path to stars distributed in distance and direction allows reconstructing the distribution of interstellar matter (ISM) in 3D. A low resolution IS dust map based on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Rosine Lallement

We use more than 872,000 mid-to-high resolution (R $\sim$ 20,000) spectra of stars from the GALAH survey to discern the spectra of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs). We use four windows with the wavelength range from 4718 to 4903, 5649 to…

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are weak and broad interstellar absorption features in astronomical spectra originating from unknown molecules. To measure DIBs in spectra of late-type stars more accurately and more efficiently, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-19 He Zhao , Mathias Schultheis , Caixia Qu , Tomaz Zwitter

A serious limitation in the study of many globular clusters -- especially those located near the Galactic Center -- has been the existence of large and differential extinction by foreground dust. In a series of papers we intend to map the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Javier Alonso-García , Mario Mateo , Bodhisattva Sen , Moulinath Banerjee , Kaspar von Braun

We present a non-parametric model for inferring the three-dimensional (3D) distribution of dust density in the Milky Way. Our approach uses the extinction measured towards stars at different locations in the Galaxy at approximately known…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 S. Rezaei Kh. , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , R. J. Hanson , M. Fouesneau

We present a map of the dust reddening to 4.5 kpc derived from Pan-STARRS1 stellar photometry. The map covers almost the entire sky north of declination -30 degrees at a resolution of 7' to 14', and is based on the estimated distances and…

The diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are absorption lines observed in visual and near infrared spectra of stars. Understanding their origin in the interstellar medium (ISM) is one of the oldest problems in astronomical spectroscopy, as…

Context. While Gaia enables to probe in great detail the extended local neighbourhood, the thin disk structure at larger distances remains sparsely explored. Aims. We aim here to build a non-parametric 3D model of the thin disc structures…

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

We present the first three-dimensional reddening maps of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) constructed using fundamental-mode RR Lyrae stars from the OGLE-IV survey. By applying a period-amplitude-color relation and a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-17 Shunxuan He , Yang Huang

The vast majority of Gaia DR1 Tycho-Gaia astrometric solution (TGAS) stars are located within a distance of 1200 pc from the Sun and up to 600 pc within the Galactic plane. Complete usage of their parallaxes is possible only if their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-31 George Gontcharov , Aleksandr Mosenkov