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We test the recently published all-sky reddening map of Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis (1998 [SFD]) using the extinction study of a region in the Taurus dark cloud complex by Arce & Goodman (1999 [AG]). In their study, AG use four different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-21 Hector G. Arce , Alyssa A. Goodman

Cosmological surveys must correct their observations for the reddening of extragalactic objects by Galactic dust. Existing dust maps, however, have been found to have spatial correlations with the large-scale structure of the Universe.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Nayantara Mudur , Core Francisco Park , Douglas P Finkbeiner

We present a new 3D map of interstellar dust reddening, covering three quarters of the sky (declinations greater than -30 degrees) out to a distance of several kiloparsecs. The map is based on high-quality stellar photometry of 800 million…

Robust reddening maps of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC/SMC) are crucial for a wide range of astrophysical studies, including the calibration of the cosmic distance ladder, investigations of stellar populations in…

We present a method to obtain reddening maps and to trace structure and metallicity gradients of the bulge using data from the recently started ESO public survey Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV). We derive the mean J-Ks color of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 O. A. Gonzalez , M. Rejkuba , M. Zoccali , E. Valenti , D. Minniti

An improved version of the 3D stellar reddening map in a space with a radius of 1200 pc around the Sun and within 600 pc of the Galactic midplane is presented. As in the previous 2010 and 2012 versions of the map, photometry with an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 George Gontcharov

The individual reddenings for B stars in two fields in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and two fields in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are determined by means of Stroemgren uvby CCD photometry. In both LMC fields we find a foreground…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 S. S. Larsen , J. V. Clausen , J. Storm

Galactic extinction is tested using galaxy number counts at low Galactic latitude obtained from five band photometry of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The spatial variation of galaxy number counts for low extinction regions of $E(B-V) <…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Naoki Yasuda , Masataka Fukugita , Donald P. Schneider

Space reddenings are derived for 15 Galactic Cepheids from dereddening CCD BVRIc data for AF-type stars in the immediate vicinities of the variables, in conjunction with 2MASS reddenings for BAF-type stars in the same fields. Potential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 David G. Turner , Ryan F. MacLellan , Arne A. Henden , Leonid N. Berdnikov

We present a (V-R)-based reddening map of about 43 square degrees of the Galactic bulge/bar. The map is constructed using template image photometry from the MACHO microlensing survey, contains 9717 resolution elements, and is based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Piotr Popowski , Kem Cook , Andrew Becker

In this work we study the spectral properties (3600 - 6800 A) of the nuclear region of early-type galaxies at low (|b|<25, intermediate (including surroundings of the Magellanic Clouds) and high (South Polar Cap) Galactic latitudes. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. M. Dutra , A. V. Ahumada , J. J. Claria , E. Bica , B. Barbuy , .

We have used optical images acquired with the Hubble Space Telescope to construct the first high-resolution extinction map in the direction of Terzan 5, a peculiar stellar system in the inner bulge of our Galaxy. The map has a spatial…

E(V$-$I) reddening values for 1123 locations in the bar region of the Large Magellanic Cloud are presented. V, I photometry of red clump stars identified in the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment II catalogue of LMC were used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Annapurni Subramaniam

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 empirical relations between the global dust reddening and other physical galaxy properties including the Halpha luminosity, Halpha surface brightness, metallicity and axial ratio for star-forming disc galaxies. The study is based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-12 Ting Xiao , Tinggui Wang , Huiyuan Wang , Hongyan Zhou , Honglin Lu , Xiaobo Dong

We investigate the reddening and Main Sequence fitted distances to eleven young, Galactic open clusters that contain Cepheids. Each cluster contains or is associated with at least one Cepheid variable star. Reddening to the clusters is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Hoyle , T. Shanks , N. R. Tanvir

We study the integral Galactic extinction and reddening based on the galaxy catalog of the South Galactic Cap U-band Sky Survey (SCUSS), where $u$ band galaxy number counts and $u-r$ color distribution are used to derive the Galactic…

Recently Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis published an all-sky reddening map based on the COBE/DIRBE and IRAS/ISSA infrared sky surveys. Using the reddening map of Baade's Window and sample of 19 low-latitude ($|b|<5\deg$) Galactic globular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Z. Stanek

The widely used Milky Way dust reddening map, the Schlegel, Finkbeiner, & Davis (1998; SFD) map, was found to contain extragalactic large-scale structure (LSS) imprints (Chiang & M\'enard 2019). Such contamination is inherent in maps based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-26 Yi-Kuan Chiang

Three-dimensional maps of the Galactic interstellar medium are general astrophysical tools. Reddening maps may be based on the inversion of color excess measurements for individual target stars or on statistical methods using stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-18 Letizia Capitanio , Rosine Lallement , Jean Luc Vergely , Meriem Elyajouri , Ana Monreal-Ibero