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The carriers of the still (mostly) unidentified diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) have been a long-standing mystery ever since their first discovery exactly 100 years ago. In recent years, the ubiquitous detection of a large number of DIBs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 Kaijun Li , Aigen Li , F. Y. Xiang

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) can trace different conditions of the ISM along the sightline toward the observed stars. A small survey was made in optical wavelengths, producing high resolution and high signal to noise spectra. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Kos , T. Zwitter

A large number of interstellar absorption features at ~ 4000\AA\ -- 1.8 {\mu}m, known as the "diffuse interstellar bands" (DIBs), remains unidentified. Most recent works relate them to large polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 F. Y. Xiang , Aigen Li , J. X. Zhong

We map the distribution and properties of the Milky Way's interstellar medium as traced by diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) detected in near-infrared stellar spectra from the SDSS-III/APOGEE survey. Focusing exclusively on the strongest…

We present high-resolution echelle spectroscopic observations of the two near- infrared (NIR) Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) at 13175 A and 11797.5 A. The DIBs have been observed in a number of diffuse interstellar medium sightlines that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 M. G. Rawlings , A. J. Adamson , T. H. Kerr

The Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) are absorption features seen in the spectra of astronomical objects, that arise in the interstellar medium. Today more than 500 DIBs have been observed mostly in the optical and near-infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-11 Leander Schlarmann , Bernard Foing , Jan Cami , Haoyu Fan

Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) are non-stellar weak absorption features of unknown origin found in the spectra of stars viewed through one or several clouds of Interstellar Medium (ISM). Research of DIBs outside the Milky Way is…

Line-of-sight extinction estimates to well-studied young T Tauri and Herbig Ae/Be stars are based on many different measurements and analysis methods. This has resulted in wide scatter among the published $A_V$ values for the same star. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Adolfo S. Carvalho , Lynne A. Hillenbrand

Using over a million and a half extragalactic spectra we study the properties of the mysterious Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) in the Milky Way. These data provide us with an unprecedented sampling of the skies at high Galactic-latitude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Dalya Baron , Dovi Poznanski , Darach Watson , Yushu Yao , J. Xavier Prochaska

Understanding variations in the dust extinction curve is imperative for using dust as a tracer of local structure in the interstellar medium, understanding dust chemistry, and observational color corrections where dust is a nuisance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-11 Andrew K. Saydjari , Gregory M. Green

We have compared the B-V colour excess, E(B-V), obtained for a sample of five optically visible massive YSOs both from diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) in their spectra and from their optical continuum slopes. Our targets are HD 200775,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rene D. Oudmaijer , Graeme Busfield , Janet E. Drew

It is well known that interstellar spectral features correlate with color excess E(B$-$V). This suggests that measuring intensities of these features allows one to estimate reddening of stars. The aim of this paper is to check how tight…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-01 J. Krelowski , G. Galazutdinov , V. Godunova , A. Bondar

Diffuse interstellar bands comprise hundreds of absorption features in the ISM. Most DIBs are observed in the optical, but some are in the IR. We observed 76 early-type stars at R=50,000 and S/N ratios of several hundreds using CRIRES. We…

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) have been discovered for almost a century, but their nature remains one of the most challenging problems in astronomical spectroscopy. Most recent work to identify and investigate the properties and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Haibo Yuan , Xiaowei Liu

ABRIDGED: Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are faint spectral absorption features of unknown origin. Research on DIBs beyond the Local Group (LG) will surely blossom in the era of the ELTs. A possibility that needs to be explored is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-18 Ana Monreal-Ibero , Peter M. Weilbacher , Martin Wendt

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are weak absorption features of interstellar origin present in the optical and infrared spectra of stars. Their use as a tool to trace the structure of the Galactic ISM is gaining relevance in the recent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-19 A. Monreal-Ibero , R. Lallement , L. Puspitarini , P. Bonifacio , L. Monaco

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are absorption features commonly observed in optical/near-infrared spectra of stars and thought to be associated with polyatomic molecules that comprise a significant reservoir of organic material in the…

We present the first sample of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) in the nearby galaxy M33. Studying DIBs in other galaxies allows the behaviour of the carriers to be examined under interstellar conditions which can be quite different from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Keith T. Smith , Martin A. Cordiner , Christopher J. Evans , Nick L. J. Cox , Peter J. Sarre

Using over a million and a half extragalactic spectra we study the correlations of the Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) in the Milky Way. We measure the correlation between DIB strength and dust extinction for 142 DIBs using 24 stacked…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Dalya Baron , Dovi Poznanski , Darach Watson , Yushu Yao , Nick L. J. Cox , J. Xavier Prochaska

More than 500 diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) have been observed in astronomical spectra, and their signatures and correlations in different environments have been studied over the past decades to reveal clues about the nature of the…

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