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We map the distribution and properties of the Milky Way's interstellar medium as traced by diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) detected in near-infrared stellar spectra from the SDSS-III/APOGEE survey. Focusing exclusively on the strongest…

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) hold a lot of information about the state and the structure of the ISM. Structure can most directly be observed by extensive spectroscopic surveys, including surveys of stars where DIBs are especially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-10 Janez Kos

We discuss the absorption due to various constituents of the interstellar medium of M82 seen in moderately high resolution, high signal-to-noise ratio optical spectra of SN 2014J. Complex absorption from M82 is seen, at velocities 45 $\le$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniel E. Welty , Adam M. Ritchey , Julie A. Dahlstrom , Donald G. York

The Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) are absorption features seen in the spectra of astronomical objects, that arise in the interstellar medium. Today more than 500 DIBs have been observed mostly in the optical and near-infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-11 Leander Schlarmann , Bernard Foing , Jan Cami , Haoyu Fan

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) trace warm neutral and weakly-ionized diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). Here we present a dedicated, high signal-to-noise spectroscopic study of two of the strongest DIBs, at 5780 and 5797 \AA, in optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-04 Mandy Bailey , Jacco Th. van Loon , Peter J. Sarre , John E. Beckman

ABRIDGED: Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are faint spectral absorption features of unknown origin. Research on DIBs beyond the Local Group (LG) will surely blossom in the era of the ELTs. A possibility that needs to be explored is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-18 Ana Monreal-Ibero , Peter M. Weilbacher , Martin Wendt

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

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are absorption features seen in optical and infrared spectra of stars that are probably caused by large and complex molecules in the ISM. Here we investigate the Galactic distribution and properties of two…

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)…

The diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are absorption features observed in optical and near-infrared spectra that are thought to be associated with carbon-rich polyatomic molecules in interstellar gas. However, because the central…

We present observations which probe the small-scale structure of the interstellar medium using diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs). Towards HD 168075/6 in the Eagle Nebula, significant differences in DIB absorption are found between the two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-24 Keith T. Smith , Martin A. Cordiner , Peter J. Sarre

We use star, galaxy and quasar spectra taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to map out the distribution of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) induced by the Milky Way. We show that, after carefully removing the intrinsic spectral energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-10 Ting-Wen Lan , Brice Ménard , Guangtun Zhu

We examine the MgII absorbing circumgalactic medium (CGM) for the 182 intermediate redshift (0.072 < z < 1.120) galaxies in the "MgII Absorber-Galaxy Catalog" (MAGIICAT, Nielsen et al.). We parameterize the anti-correlation between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Nikole M. Nielsen , Christopher W. Churchill , Glenn G. Kacprzak

We use more than 872,000 mid-to-high resolution (R $\sim$ 20,000) spectra of stars from the GALAH survey to discern the spectra of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs). We use four windows with the wavelength range from 4718 to 4903, 5649 to…

The spectrum of any star viewed through a sufficient quantity of diffuse interstellar material reveals a number of absorption features collectively called diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs). The first DIBs were reported 90 years ago, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 T. R. Geballe , F. Najarro , D. F. Figer , B. W. Schlegelmilch , D. de la Fuente

Using over a million and a half extragalactic spectra we study the correlations of the Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) in the Milky Way. We measure the correlation between DIB strength and dust extinction for 142 DIBs using 24 stacked…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Dalya Baron , Dovi Poznanski , Darach Watson , Yushu Yao , Nick L. J. Cox , J. Xavier Prochaska

We have investigated the behaviour of three strong near-infrared diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) at {\lambda}13177 {\AA}, {\lambda}14680 {\AA}, and {\lambda}15272 {\AA}, on a larger sample of sightlines and over a wider range of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-28 R. Castellanos , F. Najarro , M. Garcia , L. R. Patrick , T. R. Geballe

We investigate the diffuse interstellar band (DIB) spectrum in the interstellar medium of M31. The DEIMOS spectrograph of the W. M. Keck observatory was used to make optical spectroscopic observations of two supergiant stars, MAG 63885 and…

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are common interstellar absorption features in spectroscopic observations but their origins remain unclear. DIBs play an important role in the life cycle of the interstellar medium (ISM) and can also be…

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