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Dust in three dimensions in the Galactic Plane

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2016-09-20 v2

Abstract

We present three dimensional maps in monochromatic extinction A0A_{\rm 0} and the extinction parameter R0R_0 within a few degrees of the Galactic plane. These are inferred using photometry from the Pan-STARRS1 and Spitzer Glimpse surveys of nearly 2020 million stars located in the region l=0250l = 0-250^{\circ} and from b=4.5b = -4.5^{\circ} to b=4.5b=4.5^{\circ}. Given the available stellar number density, we use an angular resolution of 7×77' \times 7' and steps of 1mag1{\rm mag} in distance modulus. We simultaneously estimate distance modulus and effective temperature TeffT_{\rm eff} alongside the other parameters for stars individually using the method of \citet{Hanson2014} before combining these estimates to a complete map. The full maps are available via the MNRAS website.

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@article{arxiv.1609.03177,
  title  = {Dust in three dimensions in the Galactic Plane},
  author = {R. J. Hanson and C. A. L. Bailer-Jones and W. S. Burgett and K. C. Chambers and K. W. Hodapp and N. Kaiser and J. L. Tonry and R. J. Wainscoat and C. Waters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.03177},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Free-access version available at http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/stw2240?ijkey=8TdulFJR3q3ppl1&keytype=ref - data temporarily available at http://www.rhanson.de/gpdust

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