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Dust extinction law is crucial to recover the intrinsic energy distribution of celestial objects and infer the characteristics of interstellar dust. Based on the traditional pair method, an improved pair method is proposed to model the dust…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Yuxi Wang , Jian Gao , Yi Ren , Jun Li

A simple analytic model is presented to predict the near-IR H2 fluorescent line intensities emitted by diffuse interstellar clouds with a Plummer density profile. It is applicable to sightlines where (1) the column densities of H and H2…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-15 David A. Neufeld

We present near-infrared (0.8-1.8 $\mu$m) spectra of 105 bright (${m_{J}}$ $<$ 10) stars observed with the low resolution spectrometer on the rocket-borne Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER). As our observations are performed…

Mid-infrared spectroscopic measurements from the Infrared Spectrometer on Spitzer (IRS) are given for 125 hard X-ray AGN (14-195 keV) from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope sample and for 32 AGN with black hole masses from reverberation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Daniel Weedman , Lusine Sargsyan , Vianney Lebouteiller , James Houck , Donald Barry

Our aim is to compare the infrared properties of big, ``classical'' dust grains with visual extinction in the cloud L1642. In particular, we study the differences of grain emissivity between diffuse and dense regions in the cloud. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Lehtinen , M. Juvela , K. Mattila , D. Lemke , D. Russeil

We present a new map of interstellar reddening, covering the 39\% of the sky with low {\rm HI} column densities ($N_{\rm HI} < 4\times10^{20}\,\rm cm^{-2}$ or $E(B-V)\approx 45\rm\, mmag$) at $16\overset{'}{.}1$ resolution, based on all-sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-06 Daniel Lenz , Brandon S. Hensley , Olivier Doré

The Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) is the science module of the Canadian-built Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). NIRISS has four observing modes: 1) broadband imaging…

We present 10 and 20 micron images of IRAS 19500-1709 taken with the mid-infrared camera, OSCIR, mounted on the Gemini North Telescope. An extended circumstellar envelope is detected, with the N band image indicating an elongation in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. L. Clube , T. M. Gledhill

Star formation in molecular clouds is intimately linked to their internal mass distribution. We present an unprecedentedly detailed analysis of the column density structure of a high-mass, filamentary molecular cloud, namely IRDC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Kainulainen , S. E. Ragan , T. Henning , A. Stutz

We present high spatial resolution, medium spectral resolution near-infrared (NIR) H- and K-band long-slit spectroscopy for a sample of 29 nearby (z < 0.01) inactive spiral galaxies, to study the composition of their NIR stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. K. Kotilainen , T. Hyvonen , J. Reunanen , V. D. Ivanov

We present a study on the prospects of observing carbon, sulfur, and other lower abundance elements (namely Al, Ca, Ti and Ni) present in the interstellar medium using future X-ray instruments. We focus in particular on the detection and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-11 E. Costantini , S. T. Zeegers , D. Rogantini , C. P. de Vries , A. G. G. M. Tielens , L. B. F. M. Waters

The [OIII] 5007 A emission line is the most common tracer of warm, ionized outflows in active galactic nuclei across cosmic time. JWST newly allows us to use mid-infrared spectral features at both high spatial and spectral resolution to…

We use SDSS photometry of 73 million stars to simultaneously obtain best-fit main-sequence stellar energy distribution (SED) and amount of dust extinction along the line of sight towards each star. Using a subsample of 23 million stars with…

We compare the performance of several dust models in reproducing the dust spectral energy distribution (SED) per unit extinction in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). We use our results to constrain the variability of the optical…

This is the second paper in a series that utilize IFS from MaNGA, NUV imaging from Swift/UVOT and NIR imaging from 2MASS to study dust attenuation properties on kpc scales in nearby galaxies. We apply the method developed in Paper I (Zhou…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-19 Ruonan Guo , Cheng Li , Shuang Zhou , Niu Li , Tao Jing , Zhuo Cheng

This study is aimed to contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the molecular hydrogen distribution in the galaxy M33 by introducing novel methods for generating high angular resolution (18.2$''$, equivalent to 75 pc) column…

Near-infrared (NIR) hyperspectral imaging is widely used to reveal morphological and chemical information. However, conventional spectral imagers usually rely on costly focal plane arrays and suffer from data redundancy and inefficiencies…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ben Sun , Kun Huang , Zhibin Zhao , Beibei Dong , Jianan Fang , Heping Zeng

We have used a numerical simulation of a turbulent cloud to synthesize maps of the thermal emission from dust at a variety of far-IR and sub-mm wavelengths. The average column density and external radiation field in the simulation is well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Schnee , T. Bethell , A. Goodman