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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

The widely used Milky Way dust reddening map, the Schlegel, Finkbeiner, & Davis (1998; SFD) map, was found to contain extragalactic large-scale structure (LSS) imprints (Chiang & M\'enard 2019). Such contamination is inherent in maps based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-26 Yi-Kuan Chiang

Accurate correction for extinction by Galactic dust is essential for studying the extragalactic sky. In the low-extinction regions of the Ursa Major molecular cloud complex, we demonstrate that Galactic dust reddening maps constructed from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-28 Dennis Lee , Brandon S. Hensley , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré

One of the more surprising astrophysical discoveries of the last decade has been the presence of enormous quantities of dust at megaparsec distances from galaxies, which has important implications for galaxy evolution, the circumgalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Jacqueline E. McCleary , Eric M. Huff , James W. Bartlett , Brandon S. Hensley

Dust has long been identified as a barrier to measuring inherent galaxy properties. However, the link between dust and attenuation is not straightforward and depends on both the amount of dust and its distribution. Herschel imaging of…

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

Galactic interstellar dust has a profound impact not only on our observations of objects throughout the Universe, but also on the morphology, star formation, and chemical evolution of the Galaxy. The advent of massive imaging and…

In the last decade, it has become clear that the dust-enshrouded star formation contributes significantly to early galaxy evolution. Detection of dust is therefore essential in determining the properties of galaxies in the high-redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 Guilaine Lagache

Gaia data and stellar surveys open the way to the construction of detailed 3D maps of the Galactic interstellar (IS) dust based on the synthesis of star distances and extinctions. Reliable extinction measurements require very accurate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 R. Lallement , L. Capitanio , L. Ruiz-Dern , C. Danielski , C. Babusiaux , J. L. Vergely , M. Elyajouri , F. Arenou , N. Leclerc

We present new three-dimensional (3D) interstellar dust reddening maps of the Galactic plane in three colours, E(G-Ks), E(Bp-Rp) and E(H-Ks). The maps have a spatial angular resolution of 6 arcmin and covers over 7000 deg$^2$ of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 B. -Q. Chen , Y. Huang , H. -B. Yuan , C. Wang , D. -W. Fan , M. -S. Xiang , H. -W. Zhang , Z. -J. Tian , X. -W. Liu

We present a new 3D map of interstellar dust reddening, covering three quarters of the sky (declinations greater than -30 degrees) out to a distance of several kiloparsecs. The map is based on high-quality stellar photometry of 800 million…

Scattering and absorption of light by a homogeneous distribution of intergalactic large dust grains has been proposed as an alternative, non-cosmological explanation for the faintness of Type Ia supernovae at $z\s im 0.5$. We investigate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ariel Goobar , Lars Bergstrom , Edvard Mortsell

Dust in galaxies can be mapped by either the FIR/sub-mm emission, the optical or infrared reddening of starlight, or the extinction of a known background source. We compare two dust extinction measurements for a set of fifteen sections in…

Infrared emission from intergalactic dust might compromise the ability of future experiments to detect subtle spectral distortions in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) from the early Universe. We provide the first estimate of foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Nia Imara , Abraham Loeb

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…

Three-dimensional maps of the Galactic interstellar medium are general astrophysical tools. Reddening maps may be based on the inversion of color excess measurements for individual target stars or on statistical methods using stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-18 Letizia Capitanio , Rosine Lallement , Jean Luc Vergely , Meriem Elyajouri , Ana Monreal-Ibero

The diffuse ultraviolet background radiation has been mapped over most of the sky with 2\arcmin \ resolution using data from the \textit{GALEX} survey. We utilize this map to study the correlation between the UV background and clusters of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 Brian Welch , Stephan McCandliss , Dan Coe

We present a full sky 100 micron map that is a reprocessed composite of the COBE/DIRBE and IRAS/ISSA maps, with the zodiacal foreground and confirmed point sources removed. Before using the ISSA maps, we remove the remaining artifacts from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David J. Schlegel , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Marc Davis

Extinction maps are essential for tracing interstellar dust and enabling accurate stellar population studies in galaxies. Here, a high-resolution extinction distribution of nearby galaxy M33 is constructed by fitting multiband color indexes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-09 Yuxi Wang , Yi Ren , Jian Gao , Bingqiu Chen , Ying Li

We have constructed a full-sky map of the far-infrared suitable for measuring Galactic reddening and extinction (Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis 1998: SFD). The SFD map is based upon extensive re-analysis of data from the COBE/DIRBE and IRAS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. J. Schlegel , D. P. Finkbeiner , M. Davis
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