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Asteroseismology has become widely accepted as a benchmark for accurate and precise fundamental stellar properties. It can therefore be used to validate and calibrate stellar parameters derived from other approaches. Meanwhile, one can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Jie Yu , Shourya Khanna , Nathalie Themessl , Saskia Hekker , Guillaume Dréau , Laurent Gizon , Shaolan Bi

Understanding the effects of dust extinction is important to properly interpret observations. The optical total-to-selective extinction ratio, Rv = Av/E(B-V), is widely used to describe extinction variations in ultraviolet and optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-01 Shu Wang , Biwei Jiang , He Zhao , Xiaodian Chen , Richard de Grijs

We present a deep, high-angular resolution 3D dust map of the southern Galactic plane over $239^\circ < \ell < 6^\circ$ and $|b| < 10^\circ$ built on photometry from the DECaPS2 survey, in combination with photometry from VVV, 2MASS, and…

Near-infrared color-excess and extinction ratios are essential for establishing the cosmic distance scale and probing the Galaxy, particularly when analyzing targets attenuated by significant dust. A robust determination of those ratios…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-12 D. Majaess , D. Turner , I. Dekany , D. Minniti , W. Gieren

Optical/UV photons and even harder radiation components in galaxies are absorbed and scattered by dust and re-emitted at infrared wavelengths. For a better understanding of the obscured regions of the galaxies detailed models of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ralf Siebenmorgen , Frank Heymann

In the mapping of the local ISM it is of some interest to know where the first indications of the boundary of the Local Bubble can be measured. The Hipparcos distances combined to B-V photometry and some sort of spectral classification…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-06-26 Jens Knude

The characterisation of the extinction curve in the near infrared (NIR) is fundamental to analyse the structure and stellar population of the Galactic centre (GC), whose analysis is hampered by the extreme interstellar extinction ($A_V\sim…

Extinction remains one of the most reliable methods of measuring column density of nearby Galactic interstellar clouds. The current and ongoing near-infrared surveys enable the mapping of extinction over large sky areas. We produce allsky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 M. Juvela , J. Montillaud

We are studying the column density distribution of all nearby giant molecular clouds. As part of this project we generated several all sky extinction maps. They are calculated using the median near infrared colour excess technique applied…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Rowles , D. Froebrich

The study of atmospheric extinction based on the MASS data has been carried out using the classical photometric pairs method. The extinction in V band can be estimated at 0.m 19. The water vapour content has been derived from GPS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Olga Voziakova

We characterise the relation between the gas and dust content of the interstellar medium towards young stellar objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster. X-ray observations provide estimates of the absorbing equivalent hydrogen column density N_H…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Birgit Hasenberger , Jan Forbrich , Joao Alves , Scott Wolk , Stefan Meingast , Konstantin Getman , Ignazio Pillitteri

In the past few years, the extinction law has been measured in the infrared wavelengths for various molecular clouds and different laws have been obtained. In this paper we seek variations of the extinction law within the Trifid nebula…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 L. Cambrésy , J. Rho , D. J. Marshall , W. T. Reach

The high cosmological precision offered by the next generation of galaxy surveys hinges on improved corrections for Galactic dust extinction. We explore the possibility of estimating both the dust extinction and large-scale structure from a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Matías Bravo , Eric Gawiser , Nelson D. Padilla , Joseph DeRose , Risa H. Wechsler , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

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 use the multi-epoch K$\rm _S$ band observations, covering a $\sim$5 years baseline to obtain milli and sub-milli arcsec precision astrometry for a sample of eighteen previously known high proper motion sources, including precise…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-20 J. C. Beamin , R. A. Mendez , R. L. Smart , R. Jara , R. Kurtev , M. Gromadzki , V. Villanueva , D. Minniti , L. C. Smith , P. W. Lucas

We present a method for obtaining the likelihood function of distance and extinction to a star given its photometry. The other properties of the star (its mass, age, metallicity and so on) are marginalised assuming a simple Galaxy model. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 S. E. Sale , J. Magorrian

We propose an improved method for the atmospheric extinction reduction within optical photometry. Our method is based on the simultaneous multicolor observations of photometric standards. Such data are now available within the modern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-06 A. Zakharov , A. Mironov , A. Biryukov , N. Kroussanova , M. Prokhorov , G. Beskin , S. Karpov , S. Bondar , E. Ivanov , A. Perkov , V. Sasyuk

We develop, validate and apply a forward model to estimate stellar atmospheric parameters ($T_{\rm eff}$, $\log{g}$ and $\mathrm{[Fe/H]}$), revised distances and extinctions for 220 million stars with XP spectra from $\textit{Gaia}$ DR3.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Xiangyu Zhang , Gregory M. Green , Hans-Walter Rix

We present three 14400 square degree relative extinction maps of the Galactic Plane (|b|<20degrees) obtained from 2MASS using accumulative star counts (Wolf diagrams). This method is independent of the colour of the stars and the variation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Froebrich , T. P. Ray , G. C. Murphy , A. Scholz

We present an absolute parallax and relative proper motion for the fundamental distance scale calibrator, RR Lyr. We obtain these with astrometric data from FGS 3, a white-light interferometer on HST. We find $\pi_{abs} = 3.82 \pm 0.2$ mas.…