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We present a new three-dimensional map of dust reddening, based on Gaia parallaxes and stellar photometry from Pan-STARRS 1 and 2MASS. This map covers the sky north of a declination of -30 degrees, out to a distance of several kiloparsecs.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Gregory M. Green , Edward F. Schlafly , Catherine Zucker , Joshua S. Speagle , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

One of the major challenges we face is how to quickly and accurately create the three-dimensional (3D) density distributions of interstellar dust in the Milky Way using extinction and distance measurements of large samples of stars. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-20 Bingqiu Chen , Fei Qin , Guangxing Li

Interstellar dust affects astronomical observations through absorption and reddening, yet this extinction is also a powerful tool for studying interstellar matter in galaxies. 3D reconstructions of dust extinction and density in the Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 T. E. Dharmawardena , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , M. Fouesneau , D. Foreman-Mackey

We present a three-dimensional (3D) extinction map of the southern sky. The map covers the SkyMapper Southern Survey (SMSS) area of $\sim$ 14,000 ${\rm deg^{2}}$ and has spatial resolutions between 6.9 and 27 arcmin. Based on the multi-band…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-13 H. -L. Guo , B. -Q. Chen , H. -B. Yuan , Y. Huang , D. -Z Liu , Y. Yang , X. -Y. Li , W. -X. Sun , X. -W. Liu

Aims: We introduce a new deep-learning approach for the reconstruction of 3D dust density and temperature distributions from multi-wavelength dust emission observations on the scale of individual star-forming cloud cores (<0.2pc). Methods:…

Context. The polarized thermal emission from interstellar dust offers a valuable tool for probing both the dust and the magnetic field in the interstellar medium (ISM). However, existing observations only yield the total amount of dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Katia Ferrière , Ludovic Montier , Jean-Sébastien Carrière

We present a method for accurately and precisely inferring photometric dust extinction towards stars at mid-to-high Galactic latitudes using probabilistic machine learning to model the colour-magnitude distribution of zero-extinction stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-15 Matthew O'Callaghan , Kaisey S. Mandel , Gerry Gilmore

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…

We present a three-dimensional map of interstellar dust reddening, covering three-quarters of the sky out to a distance of several kiloparsecs, based on Pan-STARRS 1 and 2MASS photometry. The map reveals a wealth of detailed structure, from…

Gaia data are revolutionizing our knowledge of the evolutionary history of the Milky Way. 3D maps of the interstellar dust provide complementary information and are a tool for a wide range of uses. We aimed at building 3D maps of the dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-29 R. Lallement , C. Babusiaux , J. L. Vergely , D. Katz , F. Arenou , B. Valette , C. Hottier , L. Capitanio

In this first paper in a series we present a study of the global dust emission distribution in nearby edge-on spiral galaxies. Our sample consists of 16 angularly large and 13 less spatially resolved galaxies selected from the DustPedia…

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

Combining redshift and galaxy shape information offers new exciting ways of exploiting the gravitational lensing effect for studying the large scales of the cosmos. One application is the three-dimensional reconstruction of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Patrick Simon , Andy Taylor , Jan Hartlap

The spatial distribution of the gaseous components of the Milky Way is of great importance for a number of different fields, for example, Galactic structure, star formation, and cosmic rays. However, obtaining distance information to…

We present a novel methodology for mapping dust extinction in nearby galaxies at parsec-scale resolution. We apply it to HST 68 fields within the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (23 fields in the SMC and 45 fields in the LMC) using…

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

We propose a novel method to constrain the spatial extent of dust around galaxies through the measurement of dust temperature. Our method combines the dust emission of galaxies from far-infrared (FIR) image stacking analysis and the quasar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Toshiya Kashiwagi , Yasushi Suto

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

Sensitive ground-based submillimeter surveys, such as ATLASGAL, provide a global view on the distribution of cold dense gas in the Galactic plane. Here we use the 353 GHz maps from the Planck/HFI instrument to complement the ground-based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 T. Csengeri , A. Weiss , F. Wyrowski , K. M. Menten , J. S. Urquhart , S. Leurini , F. Schuller , H. Beuther , S. Bontemps , L. Bronfman , Th. Henning , N. Schneider

We present a reconstruction of the line-of-sight motions of the local interstellar medium (ISM) based on the combination of a model of the three-dimensional dust density distribution within 1.25 kpc from the Sun and the HI and CO line…