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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…

Results. We illustrate our profile-fitting technique and present the K\,{\sc i} velocity structure of the dense ISM along the paths to all targets. As a validation test of the dust map, we show comparisons between distances to several…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-04 A. Ivanova , R. Lallement , J. L. Vergely , C. Hottier

We present a comprehensive 3D dust reddening map covering the entire Milky Way, constructed by combining reddening estimates based on LAMOST low-resolution spectra (E(B$-$V)$_{\rm LAMOST}$) with those derived from $Gaia$ XP spectra…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-10 Tao Wang , Haibo Yuan , Bingqiu Chen , Maosheng Xiang , Ruoyi Zhang , Bowen Huang , Hongrui Gu , Shuaicong Wang , Jiawei Li

Absorption of light is one of the main selection effects limiting our ability to detect celestial sources, and ultimately, appearance of the sky across most of the electromagnetic spectrum. Recent advances in quantity and quality of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-06 Victor Doroshenko

A sample of local galaxies for which far infrared and uv fluxes are available is used to estimate the characteristic dust extinction in galaxies and to test whether standard dust properties are plausible. Assuming galaxies can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Rowan-Robinson

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

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

How dust absorbs and scatters starlight as a function of wavelength (known as the interstellar extinction curve) is crucial for correcting for the effects of dust extinction in inferring the true luminosity and colors of reddened…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Aigen Li , Shu Wang , Jian Gao , B. W. Jiang

Dust has long been identified as a barrier to measuring inherent galaxy properties. However, the link between dust and attenuation is not straightforward and depends on both the amount of dust and its distribution. Herschel imaging of…

We provide new, high-resolution A(Ks) extinction maps of the heavily reddened Galactic midplane based on the Rayleigh-Jeans Color Excess ("RJCE") method. RJCE determines star-by-star reddening based on a combination of near- and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 David L. Nidever , Gail Zasowski , Steven R. Majewski

Interstellar dust plays a central role in shaping the detailed structure of the interstellar medium, thus strongly influencing star formation and galaxy evolution. Dust extinction provides one of the main pillars of our understanding of…

The observation of our home galaxy, the Milky Way (MW), is made difficult by our internal viewpoint. The Gaia survey that contains around 1.6 billion star distances is the new flagship of MW structure and can be combined with other…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-15 David Cornu

Using a high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamic simulation, we present a method to constrain extinction due to intergalactic grey dust based on the observed magnitudes of distant Type IA supernovae. We apply several simple prescriptions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Rupert A. C. Croft , Romeel Dave' , Lars Hernquist , Neal Katz

To investigate the nature of starbursts' dust, we constructed a model of the stars and dust in starburst galaxies and applied it to 30 observed starburst spectral energy distributions (SEDs). The starburst model was constructed by combining…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. D. Gordon , D. Calzetti , A. N. Witt

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

Studying absorption and scattering of X-ray radiation by interstellar dust grains allows us to access the physical and chemical properties of cosmic grains even in the densest regions of the Galaxy. We aim at characterising the dust…

The gas-to-dust ratio of reddened stars in the Milky Way (MW), the Magellanic Clouds, and in general is usually expressed as a linear relation between the hydrogen column density, N(H), and the reddening, E(B-V), or extinction in the V band…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-21 Robert E. Butler , Samir Salim

In the last decade, it has become clear that the dust-enshrouded star formation contributes significantly to early galaxy evolution. Detection of dust is therefore essential in determining the properties of galaxies in the high-redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 Guilaine Lagache

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

New low-resolution UV spectra of a sample of reddened OB stars in M31 were obtained with HST/STIS to study the wavelength dependence of interstellar extinction and the nature of the underlying dust grain populations. Extinction curves were…