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The Galactic bulge is one of the most information-dense regions to study resolved stellar populations, variables, and transients, such as microlensing events. Studies toward the Galactic bulge are complicated by the large and variable…

We present a three dimensional extinction map in $r$ band. The map has a spatial angular resolution, depending on latitude, between 3 -- 9\,arcmin and covers the entire XSTPS-GAC survey area of over 6,000\,$\rm deg^2$ for Galactic longitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 B. -Q Chen , X. -W. Liu , H. -B. Yuan , H. -H. Zhang , M. Schultheis , B. -W. Jiang , Y. Huang , M. -S. Xiang , H. -B. Zhao , J. -S. Yao , H. Lu

Galactic interstellar extinction maps are powerful and necessary tools for Milky Way structure and stellar population analyses, particularly toward the heavily-reddened bulge and in the midplane. However, due to the difficulty of obtaining…

We present a method to simultaneously infer the interstellar extinction parameters $A_0$ and $R_0$, stellar effective temperature $T_{\rm eff}$, and distance modulus $\mu$ in a Bayesian framework. Using multi-band photometry from SDSS and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 R. J. Hanson , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones

We have obtained repeated images of 6 fields towards the Galactic bulge in 5 passbands (u, g, r, i, z) with the DECam imager on the Blanco 4m telescope at CTIO. From over 1.6 billion individual photometric measurements in the field centered…

Aims: We used 12,530 photometrically-selected blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to estimate the total extinction of the Milky Way at the high Galactic latitudes, $R_V$ and $A_V$ in each line of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Hai-Jun Tian , Chao Liu , Jing-Yao Hu , Yang Xu , Xue-Lei Chen

We present an extinction map of the inner $\sim$\SI{15}{\arcminute} by {16}{\arcminute} of the Galactic Center (GC) with map `pixels' measuring \SI{5}{\arcsecond} $\times$ \SI{5}{\arcsecond} using integrated light color measurements in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-06 R. Deno Stelter , Stephen S. Eikenberry

We measure the zero point of the Stanek (1996) extinction map by comparing the observed (V-K) colors of 20 RR Lyrae stars (type ab) found in the MACHO survey with their intrinsic (V-K)_0 colors as a function of period as determined from…

Three dimensional interstellar extinction maps provide a powerful tool for stellar population analysis. We use data from the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea survey together with the Besan\c{c}on stellar population synthesis model of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Schultheis , B. Q. Chen , B. W. Jiang , O. A. Gonzalez , R. Enokiya , Y. Fukui , K. Torii , M. Rejkuba , D. Minniti

The nature of Galactic interstellar extinction is tested using reddening line parameters for several fields in conjunction with equivalent widths $W(\lambda4430)$ for the diffuse interstellar band at $4430$ \AA. The Cardelli et…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 David G. Turner , Daniel J. Majaess , David D. Balam

We present a new two-dimensional (2D) map of total Galactic extinction, $A_\mathrm{V}$, across the entire dust half-layer from the Sun to extragalactic space for Galactic latitudes $|b|>13$ deg, as well as a three-dimensional (3D) map of…

We are studying the column density distribution of all nearby giant molecular clouds. As part of this project we generated several all sky extinction maps. They are calculated using the median near infrared colour excess technique applied…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Rowles , D. Froebrich

We built K band extinction maps in the area of two candidate low-extinction windows in the inner Bulge: W0.2-2.1 at (l,b) = (0.25o,-2.15o), and W359.4-3.1 at (l,b) = (359.40o,-3.10o). We employed JHKs photometry from the 2MASS Point Source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. M. Dutra , B. X. Santiago , E. L. D. Bica

Aims. We aim to map the 3D distribution of the interstellar extinction of the Milky Way disk up to distances larger than those probed with the Gaia parallax alone. Methods. We apply the FEDReD (Field Extinction-Distance Relation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-16 C. Hottier , C. Babusiaux , F. Arenou

We use near-infrared (J-K)-colours of bright 2MASS galaxies, measured within a 7"-radius aperture, to calibrate the Schlegel et al. (1998) DIRBE/IRAS Galactic extinction map at low Galactic latitudes ($|b| < 10^{\rm o}$). Using 3460…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 A. C. Schröder , W. van Driel , R. C. Kraan-Korteweg

Studies of the properties of the inner Galactic Bulge depend strongly on the assumptions about the interstellar extinction. Most of the extinction maps available in the literature lack the information about the distance. We combine the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Q. Chen , M. Schultheis , B. W. Jiang , O. A. Gonzalez , A. C. Robin , M. Rejkuba , D. Minniti

We present a dust-column--dependent extinction curve parameters for ultraviolet wavelengths at high Galactic latitudes. This extinction function diverges from previous work in that it takes into account the results of Peek & Schiminovich…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-11-14 J. E. G. Peek

We present a 127deg x 63deg extinction map of the Anticenter of the Galaxy, based on <J-H> and <H-K> colour excess maps from 2MASS. This 8001 square degree map with a resolution of 4 arcminutes is provided as online material. The colour…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 D. Froebrich , G. C. Murphy , M. D. Smith , J. Walsh

We present three 14400 square degree relative extinction maps of the Galactic Plane (|b|<20degrees) obtained from 2MASS using accumulative star counts (Wolf diagrams). This method is independent of the colour of the stars and the variation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Froebrich , T. P. Ray , G. C. Murphy , A. Scholz

We map the distribution of dust in M31 at 25pc resolution, using stellar photometry from the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury. We develop a new mapping technique that models the NIR color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of red giant branch…