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We compute the mid-infrared extinction law from 3.6-24 microns in three molecular clouds: Ophiuchus, Perseus, and Serpens, by combining data from the "Cores to Disks" Spitzer Legacy Science program with deep JHKs imaging. Using a new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Nicholas L. Chapman , Lee G. Mundy , Shih-Ping Lai , Neal J. Evans

Investigating the extinction properties in dense molecular clouds is of significant importance for understanding the behavior of interstellar dust and its impact on observations. In this study, we comprehensively examined the extinction law…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Jun Li , Xi Chen

A precise measure of the mid-infrared interstellar extinction law is crucial to the investigation of the properties of interstellar dust, especially of the grains in the large size end. Based on the stellar parameters derived from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-10 Mengyao Xue , Biwei Jiang , Jian Gao , Jiaming Liu , Shu Wang , Aigen Li

We have determined interstellar extinction law toward the Galactic center (GC) at the wavelength from 1.2 to 8.0 micron, using point sources detected in the IRSF/SIRIUS near-infrared survey and those in the 2MASS and Spitzer/IRAC/GLIMPSE II…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Shogo Nishiyama , Motohide Tamura , Hirofumi Hatano , Daisuke Kato , Toshihiko Tanabe , Koji Sugitani , Tetsuya Nagata

The extinction law from ultraviolet (UV) to infrared (IR) (0.2-24 $\mu$m) is determined by relying on the blue-edge method and color excess ratios for some nearby molecular clouds, from low mass star forming region to massive star forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-04 Zhetai Cao , Biwei Jiang , Shu Wang , Jun Li

Based on the data obtained from the Spitzer/GLIPMSE Legacy Program and the 2MASS project, we derive the extinction in the four IRAC bands, [3.6], [4.5], [5.8] and [8.0] micron, relative to the 2MASS Ks band (at 2.16 micron) for 131 GLIPMSE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Jian Gao , B. W. Jiang , A. Li

In recent years the wavelength dependence of interstellar extinction from the ultraviolet (UV), optical, through the near- and mid-infrared (IR) has been studied extensively. Although it is well established that the UV/optical extinction…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Shu Wang , Jian Gao , B. W. Jiang , Aigen Li , Yang Chen

We combine near-infrared (2MASS) and mid-infrared (Spitzer-IRAC) photometry to characterize the IR extinction law (1.2-8 microns) over nearly 150 degrees of contiguous Milky Way midplane longitude. The relative extinctions in 5 passbands…

We have investigated the shape of the extinction curve in the infrared up to ~25 {\mu}m for the Orion A star-forming complex. The basis of this work is near-infrared data acquired with VISTA, in combination with Pan-STARRS and mid-infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-20 Stefan Meingast , João Alves , Marco Lombardi

Interstellar dust extinction curves provide valuable information about dust properties, including the composition and size of the dust grains, and are essential to correct observations for the effects of interstellar dust. In this work, we…

A precise interstellar dust extinction law is critically important to interpret observations. There are two indicators of extinction: the color excess ratio (CER) and the relative extinction. Compared to the CER, the wavelength-dependent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-16 Shu Wang , Xiaodian Chen

Infrared photometry in the J (1.2 microns), H (1.7 microns), Ks (2.2 microns) bands from the 2MASS catalogue and in the W1 (3.4 microns), W2 (4.6 microns), W3 (12 microns), W4 (22 microns) bands from the WISE catalogue is used to reveal the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-25 George Gontcharov

Investigating the extinction law in regions of high dust extinction, such as the Pillars of Creation within the M16 region, is crucial for understanding the densest parts of the interstellar medium (ISM). In this study, we utilize…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-06 Jun Li , Bingqiu Chen , Biwei Jiang , Jian Gao , Xi Chen

We have determined the wavelength dependence of the extinction in the near-infrared bands ($J$, $H$, $K_{\mathrm S}$) toward the Galactic center from the VVV (VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea) aperture photometry of the stars in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Schun Nagatomo , Tetsuya Nagata , Shogo Nishiyama

We have determined the ratios of total to selective extinction in the near-infrared bands (J, H, Ks) toward the Galactic center from the observations of the region |l| < 2.0deg and 0.5deg < |b| < 1.0deg with the IRSF telescope and the…

We combined sensitive near-infrared data obtained with ground-based imagers on the ESO NTT and VLT telescopes with space mid-infrared data acquired with the IRAC imager on the Spitzer Space Telescope to calculate the extinction law…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Román-Zúñiga , C. Lada , A. Muench , J. Alves

The interstellar extinction law is important for interpreting observations and inferring the properties of interstellar dust grains. Based on the 993 prism/CLEAR spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we investigate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-28 Shu Wang , Xiaodian Chen

We present spectroscopic tests of MIR to FIR extinction laws in IRDC G028.36+00.07, a potential site of massive star and star cluster formation. Lim & Tan (2014) developed methods of FIR extinction mapping of this source using ${\it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-17 Wanggi Lim , Sean J. Carey , Jonathan C. Tan

Precise interstellar dust extinction laws are important to infer the intrinsic properties of reddened objects and correctly interpret observations. In this work, we attempt to measure the optical--infrared extinction laws of the Large and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Shu Wang , Xiaodian Chen

Context. The properties of dust grains, in particular their size distribution, are expected to differ from the interstellar medium to the high-density regions within molecular clouds. Aims. We measure the mid-infrared extinction law…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 J. Ascenso , C. J. Lada , J. Alves , C. G. Román-Zúñiga , M. Lombardi
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