Reddening and extinction toward the galactic bulge from OGLE-III: The Inner Milky Way's RV ~ 2.5 extinction curve

Date

2013

Authors

Nataf, David
Gould, A
Fouque, P.
Gonzalez, Oscar A.
Johnson, Jennifer A
Skowron, Jan
Udalski, A
Szymanski, M
Kubiak, M
Pietrzynski, G

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IOP Publishing

Abstract

We combine VI photometry from OGLE-III with VISTA Variables in The Via Lactea survey and Two Micron All Sky Survey measurements of E(J-Ks ) to resolve the longstanding problem of the non-standard optical extinction toward the Galactic bulge. We show that

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Keywords: dust, extinction; Galaxy: bulge; Galaxy: fundamental parameters; Galaxy: stellar content; Galaxy: structure

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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2037-12-31