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Interstellar dust plays a central role in the evolution of galaxies by shaping star formation, altering observed stellar properties, and redistributing radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. In the Milky Way, dust is concentrated in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-19 H. -L. Guo , B. -Q. Chen , H. -B. Yuan , X. -W. Liu

We present a three dimensional model for the Milky Way fit to the far-infrared (FIR) and near-infrared (NIR) data from the COBE/DIRBE instrument for Galactic latitudes |b| < 30 degrees and to within 20 degrees of the Galactic center.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 R. Drimmel , D. N. Spergel

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 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

Cosmic dust plays a vital role in stellar and galactic formation and evolution, but its three-dimensional structure in the Milky Way has remained unclear due to insufficient precise reddening and distance measurements. Although early…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-16 Ruoyi Zhang , Haibo Yuan , Bingqiu Chen , Maosheng Xiang , Yang Huang , Xiaowei Liu , Jifeng Liu

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

Understanding the 3D structure of the Milky Way is a crucial step in deriving properties of the star-forming regions, as well as the Galaxy as a whole. We present a novel 3D map of the Milky Way plane that extends to 10 kpc distance from…

We compare the spatial stellar color variations with our 3D model of the spatial dust distribution to refine the properties of the dust layer in Galactic solar neighborhoods. We use a complete sample of 93992 clump giants with an admixture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 George A. Gontcharov

Using far-infrared 240 micron and near-infrared K band data from the COBE/DIRBE instrument, we model the Galactic stellar and dust distribution. Making the assumption that the Galaxy is transparent in the 240 micron band, the dust emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ronald Drimmel , David Spergel

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…

We present a three-dimensional map of interstellar dust reddening, covering three-quarters of the sky out to a distance of several kiloparsecs, based on Pan-STARRS 1 and 2MASS photometry. The map reveals a wealth of detailed structure, from…

We examine the three-dimensional structure and dust extinction properties in a ~ 200 pc $\times$ 100 pc region in the southwest bar of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We model a deep Hubble Space Telescope optical color-magnitude diagram…

(Abridged) Using an efficient computational approach, we have reconstructed the structure of the dust cloud in the Solar system between 0.5 and 100 AU produced by the Kuiper belt objects. Our simulations offer a 3-D physical model of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nick N. Gorkavyi , Leonid M. Ozernoy , Tanya Taidakova , John C. Mather

We present a self-consistent three-dimensional Monte-Carlo radiative transfer model of the stellar and dust emission in the Milky-Way, and have computed synthetic observations of the 3.6 to 100 microns emission in the Galactic mid-plane. In…

(abridged) By comparing the distribution of dust and gas in the central regions of the Galaxy, we aim to obtain new insights into the properties of the offset dust lanes leading the bar's major axis in the Milky Way. On the one hand, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. J. Marshall , R. Fux , A. C. Robin , C. Reyle

Large stellar surveys are sensitive to interstellar dust through the effects of reddening. Using extinctions measured from photometry and spectroscopy, together with three-dimensional (3D) positions of individual stars, it is possible to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 Sara Rezaei Kh. , Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones , David W. Hogg , Mathias Schultheis

In this first paper in a series we present a study of the global dust emission distribution in nearby edge-on spiral galaxies. Our sample consists of 16 angularly large and 13 less spatially resolved galaxies selected from the DustPedia…

Understanding the distribution and properties of molecular clouds is crucial for tracing the structure and evolution of the interstellar medium and the large-scale morphology of the Milky Way. Here we present an all-sky catalog of 3,345…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-10 Tao Wang , Haibo Yuan , Bingqiu Chen , Guangxing Li , Bowen Huang , Helong Guo , Ruoyi Zhang

M31 and M33 serve as ideal places to study distributions of dust in the outskirts of spiral galaxies. In this letter, using about 0.2 million stars selected from the LAMOST data and combining precise photometry and parallaxes from the Gaia…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-05 Ruoyi Zhang , Haibo Yuan

A new model for three dimensional distribution of atomic hydrogen gas in the Milky Way is derived using the 21cm LAB survey data. The global features of the gas distribution such as spiral arms are reproduced. The Galactic plane warps…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-07-27 Maryam Tavakoli
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