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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

Astrometric surveys provide the opportunity to measure the absolute magnitudes of large numbers of stars, but only if the individual line-of-sight extinctions are known. Unfortunately, extinction is highly degenerate with stellar effective…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 C. A. L. Bailer-Jones

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

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 scheme for using stellar catalogues to map the three-dimensional distributions of extinction and dust within our Galaxy. Extinction is modelled as a Gaussian random field, whose covariance function is set by a simple physical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 S. E. Sale , J. Magorrian

We present a new dust extinction technique with which we are able to retrieve parsec-scale gas surface density maps for entire nearby galaxies. The method measures the dust attenuation in optical bands on a pixel-by-pixel basis against a…

Very precise observational data are needed for studying the stellar cluster parameters (distance, reddening, age, metallicity) and cluster internal kinematics. In turn, these give us an insight into the properties of our Galaxy, for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-16 Martin Piecka , Ernst Paunzen

We present a three dimensional map of extinction in the Northern Galactic Plane derived using photometry from the IPHAS survey. The map has fine angular ($\sim 10$ arcmin) and distance (100 pc) sampling allied to a significant depth…

Gaussian processes are the ideal tool for modelling the Galactic ISM, combining statistical flexibility with a good match to the underlying physics. In an earlier paper we outlined how they can be employed to construct three-dimensional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 S. E. Sale , J. Magorrian

The large astrometric and photometric survey performed by the Gaia mission allows for a panoptic view of the Galactic disc and in its stellar cluster population. Hundreds of clusters were only discovered after the latest G data release…

Three-dimensional (3D) kinetic maps of the Milky Way interstellar medium are an essential tool in studies of its structure and of star formation. We aim to assign radial velocities to Galactic interstellar clouds now spatially localized…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-13 Q. Duchêne , C. Hottier , R. Lallement , J. L. Vergely , C. Babusiaux , A. Marchal , F. Arenou

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

Understanding how young stars and their circumstellar disks form and evolve is key to explain how planets form. The evolution of the star and the disk is regulated by different processes, both internal to the system or related to their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 C. F. Manara , T. Prusti , J. Voirin , E. Zari

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 catalogue of 362 million stellar parameters, distances, and extinctions derived from Gaia's early third data release (EDR3) cross-matched with the photometric catalogues of Pan-STARRS1, SkyMapper, 2MASS, and AllWISE. The higher…

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

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

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 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

Context. The analysis of luminosity and mass distributions of young stellar clusters is essential to understanding the star-formation process. However, the gas and dust left over by this process extinct the light of the newborn stars and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 J. Olivares , H. Bouy , L. M. Sarro , E. Moraux , A. Berihuete , P. A. B. Galli , N. Miret-Roig