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We present a new version of our analytical model of the spatial interstellar extinction variations within the nearest kiloparsec. This model treats the 3D dust distribution as a superposition of three overlapping layers: (1) the layer along…

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

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

An improved version of the 3D stellar reddening map in a space with a radius of 1200 pc around the Sun and within 600 pc of the Galactic midplane is presented. As in the previous 2010 and 2012 versions of the map, photometry with an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 George Gontcharov

As thousands of new open clusters in the Galaxy have recently been reported with reddening or extinction information, we map the distribution and properties of the Galaxy's interstellar material in the Galactic disk as traced by these open…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-06 Yogesh C. Joshi

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

We present a method to infer reddenings and distances to stars, based only on their broad-band photometry, and show how this method can be used to produce a three-dimensional dust map of the Galaxy. Our method samples from the full…

Knowing the Galactic 3D dust distribution is relevant for understanding many processes in the interstellar medium and for correcting many astronomical observations for dust absorption and emission. Here, we aim for a 3D reconstruction of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-26 R. H. Leike , G. Edenhofer , J. Knollmüller , C. Alig , P. Frank , T. A. Enßlin

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

Accurate astrometric and photometric measurements from Gaia have led to the construction of 3D dust extinction maps which can now be used for estimating the integrated extinctions of Galactic sources located within 5 kpc. These maps based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Snehalata Sahu , Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay , Rosine Lallement , Seth Redfield , Boris T. Gaensicke

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

Three dimensional interstellar extinction maps provide a powerful tool for stellar population analysis. We use data from the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea survey together with the Besan\c{c}on stellar population synthesis model of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Schultheis , B. Q. Chen , B. W. Jiang , O. A. Gonzalez , R. Enokiya , Y. Fukui , K. Torii , M. Rejkuba , D. Minniti

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

We present the first large-scale 3D map of interstellar dust temperature. We build upon existing 3D reddening maps derived from starlight absorption (Bayestar19), covering 3/4 of the sky. Starting with the column density for each of 500…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 Ioana A. Zelko , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Albert Lee , Gregory Green

Three-dimensional (3D) maps of the Galactic interstellar matter (ISM) are a potential tool of wide use, however accurate and detailed maps are still lacking. One of the ways to construct the maps is to invert individual distance-limited ISM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Rosine Lallement , Jean-Luc Vergely , Bernard Valette , Lucky Puspitarini , Laurent Eyer , Luca Casagrande

Aims: Mapping the interstellar medium in 3D provides a wealth of insights into its inner working. The Milky Way is the only galaxy for which detailed 3D mapping can be achieved in principle. In this paper, we reconstruct the dust density in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-06 R. H. Leike , M. Glatzle , T. A. Enßlin

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

Dust plays a critical role in the study of the interstellar medium (ISM). Extinction maps derived from optical surveys often fail to capture regions with high column density due to the limited photometric depth in optical wavelengths. To…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-17 Miaomiao Zhang , Jouni Kainulainen , He Zhao , Yang Su , Min Fang , Yuehui Ma , Zhiwei Chen , Zhibo Jiang

We present a three dimensional extinction map in $r$ band. The map has a spatial angular resolution, depending on latitude, between 3 -- 9\,arcmin and covers the entire XSTPS-GAC survey area of over 6,000\,$\rm deg^2$ for Galactic longitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 B. -Q Chen , X. -W. Liu , H. -B. Yuan , H. -H. Zhang , M. Schultheis , B. -W. Jiang , Y. Huang , M. -S. Xiang , H. -B. Zhao , J. -S. Yao , H. Lu