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Extinction Distributions in Nearby Star-resolved Galaxies. II. M33

The Astronomical Journal
Extinction maps are essential for tracing interstellar dust and enabling accurate stellar population studies in galaxies. Here, a high-resolution extinction distribution of the nearby Triangulum galaxy (M33), is constructed by fitting multiband color ...
Yuxi Wang, Yi Ren, Jian Gao, Bingqiu Chen, Ying Li   +4 more
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Lactea: Web‐Based Spectrum‐Preserving Multi‐Resolution Visualization of the GAIA Star Catalog

Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 44, Issue 3, June 2025.
Abstract The explosion of data in astronomy has resulted in an era of unprecedented opportunities for discovery. The GAIA mission's catalog, containing a large number of light sources (mostly stars) with several parameters such as sky position and proper motion, is playing a significant role in advancing astronomy research and has been crucial in ...
Reem Alghamdi, Markus Hadwiger, Guido Reina, Alberto Jaspe‐Villanueva   +3 more
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Emergence of Optical Activity and Surface Morphology Changes in Racemic Amino Acid Films Under Circularly Polarized Lyman‐α Light Irradiation

Chirality, Volume 36, Issue 11, November 2024.
The photoreaction induced by Lyman‐α circularly polarized light (CPL) irradiation in racemic alanine film is more complex than simple preferential photolysis of enantiopure alanine molecules, and formation of larger molecules is observed. Circular networks of order of 100 nm scale are introduced in the alanine film surface by the irradiation.
Masahiro Kobayashi, Jun‐ichi Takahashi, Hiroshi Ota, Koichi Matsuo, Mohamed I. A. Ibrahim, Taketoshi Minato, Gen Fujimori, Masahiro Katoh, Kensei Kobayashi, Yoko Kebukawa, Hiroaki Nakamura   +10 more
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Ultraviolet Extinction by Interstellar Dust in External Galaxies: M31

The Astrophysical Journal, 1996
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) spectra of stars in OB associations of M31 are used to derive the UV extinction by interstellar dust in M31 by three different methods: (1) comparing spectra of M31 star pairs, (2) comparing spectra of M31 stars to those of Galactic standard stars, and (3) comparing M31 star spectra to ...
Luciana Bianchi, Geoffrey C. Clayton, Ralph C. Bohlin, J. B. Hutchings, Philip Massey   +4 more
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Analyzing dust particle size and size distribution on extracted particles by SEM and comparing with light scattering techniques

Plasma Processes and Polymers, Volume 21, Issue 8, August 2024.
A comparison is presented between Kinetic Mie Polarimetry and Scanning Electron Microscopy of plasma‐grown amorphous hydrogenated carbon (a‐C:H) particles. The analysis includes particle size distributions, which show that the standard deviation grows linearly, resulting in a constant shape.
Andreas Petersen, Jakob Wötzel, Christiane Zamponi, Julia Kobus, Sebastian Wolf, Franko Greiner   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Optical to Infrared 0.6–5.3 μm Dust Extinction Law of the Milky Way with JWST NIRSpec: Westerlund 2

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
The interstellar extinction law is important for interpreting observations and inferring the properties of interstellar dust grains. Based on the 993 prism/CLEAR spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we investigate the 0.6–5.3 μ m ...
Shu Wang, Xiaodian Chen
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The deep eclipses of RW Aur revisited by long‐term photometric and spectroscopic monitoring

Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 345, Issue 4, May 2024.
Abstract RW Aurigae is a young stellar system containing a classical T Tauri star as the primary component. It shows deep, irregular dimmings, first detected in 2010. At the University Observatory Jena, we carried out optical follow‐up observations. We performed multiband (BVRI) photometry of the system with the Cassegrain‐Teleskop‐Kamera II and the ...
Oliver Lux, Markus Mugrauer, Richard Bischoff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Multiwavelength Extinction Law and Its Variation in the Coalsack Molecular Cloud Based on the Gaia, APASS, SMSS, 2MASS, GLIMPSE, and WISE Surveys

The Astrophysical Journal
Accurate interpretation of observations relies on the interstellar dust extinction law, which also serves as a powerful diagnostic for probing dust properties.
Juan Deng, Shu Wang, Biwei Jiang, He Zhao   +3 more
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On the Variation of Interstellar Dust Extinction [PDF]

Dust obscures astronomical observations and plays a important role in the evolution of galaxies. Mapping dust in three dimensions not only allows accurate correction of observations but also constrains the evolution of the interstellar medium (ISM). Extinction is the central observable to trace the density and properties of dust, and is widely employed
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SWIFTULTRAVIOLET OBSERVATIONS OF SUPERNOVA 2014J IN M82: LARGE EXTINCTION FROM INTERSTELLAR DUST [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal, 2015
We present optical and ultraviolet (UV) photometry and spectra of the very nearby and highly reddened supernova (SN) 2014J in M82 obtained with the Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT). Comparison of the UVOT grism spectra of SN~2014J with Hubble Space Telescope observations of SN2011fe or UVOT grism spectra of SN~2012fr are consistent with an ...
Peter J. Brown, Michael T. Smitka, Lifan Wang, Alice Breeveld, Massimiliano de Pasquale, Dieter H. Hartmann, Kevin Krisciunas, N. Paul Kuin, Peter A. Milne, Mat Page, Michael Siegel   +10 more
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