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While it is well recognized that both the Galactic interstellar extinction curves and the gas-phase abundances of dust-forming elements exhibit considerable variations from one sight line to another, as yet most of the dust extinction…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 W. B. Zuo , Aigen Li , Gang Zhao

Near-infrared spectroscopy from APOGEE and wide-field optical photometry from Pan-STARRS1 have recently made possible precise measurements of the shape of the extinction curve for tens of thousands of stars, parameterized by R(V). These…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 E. F. Schlafly , J. E. G. Peek , D. P. Finkbeiner , G. M. Green

The three-dimensional extinction and structure are studied for the Taurus, Orion, Perseus and California molecular clouds based on the LAMOST spectroscopy. Stellar color excess is calculated with the intrinsic color index derived from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Zhetai Cao , Biwei Jiang , He Zhao , Mingxu Sun

We compare the spatial stellar color variations with our 3D model of the spatial dust distribution to refine the properties of the dust layer in Galactic solar neighborhoods. We use a complete sample of 93992 clump giants with an admixture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 George A. Gontcharov

We extract J and K_s magnitudes from the 2MASS Point Source Catalog for approximately 6 million stars with 8 < K_s < 13 in order to build an A_K extinction map within 10 degrees of the Galactic centre. The extinction was determined by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. M. Dutra , B. X. Santiago , E. L. D. Bica , B. Barbuy

Dust extinction is one of the most reliable tracers of the gas distribution in the Milky Way. The near-infrared (NIR) Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey enables extinction mapping based on stellar photometry over a large area in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 Miaomiao Zhang , Jouni Kainulainen

The Milky Way's central parsec is a highly extinguished region with a population of high-proper-motion stars. We have tracked 145 stars for $\sim$10 years at wavelengths between 1 and 4 microns to analyze extinction effects in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-13 Z. Haggard , A. M. Ghez , S. Sakai , A. K. Gautam , T. Do , J. R. Lu , M. Hosek , M. R. Morris , S. Granados

We study the extinction properties of the composite dust grains, consisting of host silicate spheroids and graphite as inclusions, using discrete dipole approximation (DDA). We calculate the extinction cross sections of the composite grains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Nisha Katyal , Ranjan Gupta , D B Vaidya

An extinction distribution of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is constructed with member stars as tracers by fitting multiband photometric data from UKIRT/WFCAM, PS1, and Gaia DR3. The resulting extinction distribution covers approximately 10…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-25 Yuxi Wang , Jian Gao , Yi Ren , Bingqiu Chen

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 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…

3D maps of the extinction density in the Galaxy can be built through the inversion of catalogues of distance-extinction pairs for individual target stars. The spatial resolution of the maps that can be achieved increases with the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 J. L. Vergely , R. Lallement , N. L. J. Cox

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

Accurate interpretation of observations relies on the interstellar dust extinction law, which also serves as a powerful diagnostic for probing dust properties. In this study, we investigate the multi-wavelength extinction law of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-14 Juan Deng , Shu Wang , Biwei Jiang , He Zhao

Accurate astrometric and photometric measurements from Gaia have led to the construction of 3D dust extinction maps which can now be used for estimating the integrated extinctions of Galactic sources located within 5 kpc. These maps based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Snehalata Sahu , Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay , Rosine Lallement , Seth Redfield , Boris T. Gaensicke

Studies of the properties of the inner Galactic Bulge depend strongly on the assumptions about the interstellar extinction. Most of the extinction maps available in the literature lack the information about the distance. We combine the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Q. Chen , M. Schultheis , B. W. Jiang , O. A. Gonzalez , A. C. Robin , M. Rejkuba , D. Minniti

The composition and properties of interstellar silicate dust are not well understood. In X-rays, interstellar dust can be studied in detail by making use of the fine structure features in the Si K-edge. The features in the Si K-edge offer a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 S. T. Zeegers , E. Costantini , D. Rogantini , C. P. de Vries , H. Mutschke , P. Mohr , F. de Groot , A. G. G. M. Tielens

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…

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…

In order to study the properties and effects of high Galactic latitude dust we present an analysis of 373,303 galaxies selected from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) All-Sky Survey and Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WISE) All-Sky Data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 J. E. G. Peek , David Schiminovich