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We compare eight sources of reddening and extinction estimates for approximately 60,000 {\it Gaia} DR1 Tycho--Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) main sequence stars younger than 3~Gyr with a relative error of the {\it Gaia} parallax less than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-11 George Gontcharov , Aleksandr Mosenkov

We extract J and K_s magnitudes from the 2MASS Point Source Catalog for approximately 6 million stars with 8 < K_s < 13 in order to build an A_K extinction map within 10 degrees of the Galactic centre. The extinction was determined by…

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

Maps of estimated dust column density in molecular clouds are usually assumed to reliably trace the total gas column density structure. In this work we present results showing a clear discrepancy between the dust and the gas distribution in…

We present wide field JHKs photometry of 16 Galactic globular clusters located towards the Galactic bulge, calibrated on the 2MASS photometric system. Differential reddening corrections and statistical field star decontamination are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Roger E. Cohen , Christian Moni Bidin , Francesco Mauro , Charles Bonatto , Douglas Geisler

This paper focuses on observing unstudied Galactic open clusters in the Ultraviolet (UV) wavelength range and analyzing their photometric data. The Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) enables us to precisely study known Galactic open clusters. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-09 Tahereh Ramezani , Ernst Paunzen , Artem Gorodilov , Olga Ines Pintado

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

We present maps of the cosmic large-scale structure around the twelve most distant galaxy clusters from the Massive Cluster Survey (MACS) as traced by the projected surface density of galaxies on the cluster red sequence. Taken with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe , Harald Ebeling , C. J. Ma , David Donovan

We use deep $8\:\mu m$ Spitzer-IRAC imaging of a massive Infrared Dark Cloud (IRDC) G028.37+00.07 to construct a Mid-Infrared (MIR) extinction map that probes mass surface densities up to $\Sigma\:\sim 1\:\rm{g~cm^{-2}}$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Michael J. Butler , Jonathan C. Tan , Jouni Kainulainen

Our main goal is to derive a new extinction map of the OMC-1, obtaining information about the structure of the OMC-1 and the Orion Nebula Cluster. The most recent near-infrared catalog of stars is used to study the distribution of reddening…

Space Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 Gaetano Scandariato , Massimo Robberto , Isabella Pagano , Lynne Hillenbrand

Stars in open clusters are powerful probes of the intervening Galactic magnetic field, via background starlight polarimetry, because they provide constraints on the magnetic field distances. We use 2MASS photometric data for a sample of 31…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Sadia Hoq , Dan Clemens

Accurate modeling of the spectrum of thermal dust emission at millimeter wavelengths is important for improving the accuracy of foreground subtraction for CMB measurements, for improving the accuracy with which the contributions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 N. Odegard , A. Kogut , D. T. Chuss , N. J. Miller

We present new reddening maps of the SMC and LMC based on the data of the third phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE III). We have used two different methods to derive optical reddening maps. We adopt a theoretical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-04-14 Raoul Haschke , Eva K. Grebel , Sonia Duffau

We combine VI photometry from OGLE-III with VVV and 2MASS measurements of E(J-K_{s}) to resolve the longstanding problem of the non-standard optical extinction toward the Galactic bulge. We show that the extinction is well-fit by the…

We investigate reddening by Milky Way dust in the low-extinction regime of $E_{B-V}<0.15$. Using over 50,000 QSOs at $0.5<z<2.5$ from the SDSS DR7 QSO Catalogue we probe the residual SDSS colours after dereddening and correcting for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Christian Wolf

We use a sample of 532 star-forming galaxies at redshifts $z\sim 1.4-2.6$ with deep rest-frame optical spectra from the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) survey to place the first constraints on the nebular attenuation curve at high…

We present a new dust extinction technique with which we are able to retrieve parsec-scale gas surface density maps for entire nearby galaxies. The method measures the dust attenuation in optical bands on a pixel-by-pixel basis against a…

We report the discovery of a previously unknown massive Galactic star cluster at l=29.22, b=-0.20. Identified visually in mid-IR images from the Spitzer GLIMPSE survey, the cluster contains at least 8 late-type supergiants, based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael J. Alexander , Henry A. Kobulnicky , Dan P. Clemens , Katherine Jameson , April Pinnick , Michael Pavel

We present a study of the dust-to-gas ratios in five nearby galaxies NGC 628 (M74), NGC 6503, NGC 7793, UGC 5139 (Holmberg I), and UGC 4305 (Holmberg II). Using Hubble Space Telescope broad band WFC3/UVIS UV and optical images from the…