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Although diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) were discovered over 100 years ago, for most of them, their origins are still unknown. Investigation on the correlations between different DIBs is an important way to study the behavior and…

We developed a set of procedures to automatically detect and measure the DIB around 8620 {\AA} (the Gaia DIB) for a wide range of temperatures. The DIB profile is fit with a Gaussian function. Specifically, the DIB feature is extracted from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-04 H. Zhao , M. Schultheis , A. Recio-Blanco , G. Kordopatis , P. de Laverny , A. Rojas-Arriagada , M. Zoccali , F. Surot , E. Valenti

Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) are crucial tracers of the interstellar medium (ISM), yet their carriers remain poorly understood. While large-scale surveys have advanced DIB studies in cool stellar spectra, measurements in hot stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-18 Xiao-Xiao Ma , A-Li Luo , Jian-Jun Chen , Jing Chen , Jun-Chao Liang

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

The diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are ubiquitous absorption spectral features arising from the tenuous material in the space between stars -- the interstellar medium (ISM). Since their first detection nearly nine decades ago, over 400…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 F. Y. Xiang , Aigen Li , J. X. Zhong

We investigate the absorption signals of a strong diffuse interstellar band, DIB$\lambda4430$, in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) traced by MgII absorption lines. To this end, we make use of approximately 60,000 MgII absorption line spectra…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-01 Chih-Yuan Chang , Ting-Wen Lan

Interstellar diffuse bands are usually extracted from hot star spectra because they are characterized by smooth continua. It introduces a strong limitation on the number of available targets, and reduces potential studies of the IS matter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Hui-Chen Chen , Rosine Lallement , Carine Babusiaux , Lucky Puspitarini , Piercarlo Bonifacio , Vanessa Hill

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…

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

We are using five different surveys to compile the largest sample of diffuse interstellar band (DIB) measurements ever collected. GOSSS is obtaining intermediate-resolution blue-violet spectroscopy of ~2500 OB stars, of which 60% have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Maíz Apellániz , A. Sota , R. H. Barbá , N. I. Morrell , A. Pellerin , E. J. Alfaro , S. Simón-Díaz

Echelle spectra of the double-lined spectroscopic binary HD 204827 were obtained on five nights, at a resolving power R = 38,000 and with a S/N ratio = 750 near 6000 A in the final, combined spectrum. The stars show E(B-V) = 1.11 and…

CONTEXT: The unparalleled characteristics of Gaia photometry make it an excellent choice to study stellar variability. AIMS: To measure the phot. dispersion in G+G_BP+G_RP of the 145 677 450 Gaia DR3 5-parameter sources with G <= 17 mag and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 J. Maíz Apellániz , G. Holgado , M. Pantaleoni González , J. A. Caballero

In this poster we show our preliminary analysis of DIBs (Diffuse Interstellar Bands) and other interstellar absorption lines with the purpose of understanding their origin and their relationship with extinction. We use the biggest Galactic…

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

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are broad absorption features measured in sightlines probing the diffuse interstellar medium. Although large carbon-bearing molecules have been proposed as the carriers producing DIBs, their identity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 M. C. Ramírez-Tannus , N. L. J. Cox , L. Kaper , A. de Koter

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…

The tendency of some diffuse interstellar band (DIB) carriers to concentrate in the outer, UV-illuminated layers of molecular clouds (MCs)--the ``skin effect''--makes their spatial distribution a powerful probe of their physical nature. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-09 He Zhao , Lu Li

The diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) probably arise from complex organic molecules whose strength in local galaxies correlates with neutral hydrogen column density, N(HI), and dust reddening, E(B-V). Since CaII absorbers in quasar (QSO)…

We have conducted a high signal-to-noise spectroscopic survey of 670 nearby early-type stars, to map Diffuse Interstellar Band (DIB) absorption in and around the Local Bubble. The project started with a Southern hemisphere survey conducted…

This study performs a multi-wavelength astrometric and photometric examination of a high-confidence sample $(N = 120,418)$ derived from a parent population of 2.36 million unique WDSS-seeded systems. By establishing an empirical polynomial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Andrew Soon