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The Impact of Accurate Extinction Measurements for X-ray Spectral Models

, 2015
Interstellar extinction includes both absorption and scattering of photons from interstellar gas and dust grains, and it has the effect of altering a source's spectrum and its total observed intensity.
Corrales, Lia, Smith, Randall K., Valencic, Lynne A.   +2 more
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Limitations of the modified blackbody fit method for determining molecular cloud properties

Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 345, Issue 4, May 2024.
Abstract Achieving a comprehensive understanding of the star and planet formation process is one of the fundamental tasks of astrophysics, requiring detailed knowledge of the physical conditions during the different phases of this process. During the earliest stages, that is, concerning physical processes in molecular clouds and filaments, the column ...
Niko Zielinski, Sebastian Wolf
wiley   +1 more source

On Absorption by Circumstellar Dust, With the Progenitor of SN2012aw as a Case Study

, 2012
We use the progenitor of SN2012aw to illustrate the consequences of modeling circumstellar dust using Galactic (interstellar) extinction laws that (1) ignore dust emission in the near-IR and beyond; (2) average over dust compositions, and (3) mis ...
C. S. Kochanek, Draine, Fraser, Freedman, Gehrels, Goobar, Immler, Ivezic, Ivezic, Kochanek, Kochanek, Massey, Matzner, Moretti, O'Connor, Prieto, R. Khan, Soderberg, Stockdale, Sugerman, Szczygieł, Thompson, Ugliano, Van Dyk, Wang, X. Dai, Yadav   +26 more
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Chiroptical properties of membrane glycerophospholipids and their chiral backbones

Chirality, Volume 36, Issue 3, March 2024.
Examination of the interaction of glycerophospholipids with circularly polarized light suggests that direct induction of symmetry breaking to membrane lipids by chiral photons is unlikely. However, anisotropy spectra of certain analogs indicate potential alternative mechanisms for the origins of membrane lipid homochirality, providing insights into the
Jana Bocková, Adrien D. Garcia, Nykola C. Jones, Søren V. Hoffmann, Cornelia Meinert   +4 more
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Analytic formulas for frequency and size dependence of absorption and scattering efficiencies of astronomical polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

, 2012
In a series of two recent papers, the frequency and size distribution dependence of extinction spectra for astronomical silicate and graphite grains was analyzed by us in the context of MRN type interstellar dust models.
Ashim K. Roy, Cardelli, Cecchi-Pestellini, Donn, Draine, Draine, Draine, Fitzpatrick, Klacka, Li, Li, Li, Mathis, Pendorf, Platt, Pritesh Ranadive, Ranjan Gupta, Roy, Roy, Subodh K. Sharma, Weingartner   +20 more
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Active Metasurfaces for Non‐Rigid Light Sail Interstellar Optical Communication

Advanced Theory and Simulations, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2024.
Non‐rigidity of the nanophotonic light sail deformation that leads to varying angles of incidence and polarization across the aperture, significantly impacting unit cells' performance. It proposes a reflective all‐dielectric, low‐power active metasurface that dynamically counteracts the deformations in the shape of the light sail caused by the non ...
Mohammadrasoul Taghavi, Raana Sabri, Hossein Mosallaei   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parameterizing the interstellar dust temperature [PDF]

, 2017
The temperature of interstellar dust particles is of great importance to astronomers. It plays a crucial role in the thermodynamics of interstellar clouds, because of the gas-dust collisional coupling.
S. Hocuk, L. Szűcs, P. Caselli, S. Cazaux, S. Cazaux, M. Spaans, G. Esplugues   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The 2200 A bump and the UV extinction curve

, 2012
The 2200 A bump is a major figure of interstellar extinction. Extinction curves with no bump however exist and are, with no exception, linear from the near-infrared down to 2500 A at least, often over all the visible-UV spectrum.
Bondar, Bradley, Cardelli, Cecchi-Pestellini, Divan, Désert, Fitzpatrick, Gordon, Herbig, Li, Li, Mulas, Nandy, Papoular, Savage, Schalén, Seaton, Steglich, Wegner, Whitford, Wickramasinghe, Wu, Yastrebov, Zagury, Zagury, Zagury, Zagury, Zagury, Zagury, Zagury, Zagury, Zagury, Zagury, Zonca   +33 more
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ON GALACTIC DENSITY MODELING IN THE PRESENCE OF DUST EXTINCTION [PDF]

, 2015
Inferences about the spatial density or phase-space structure of stellar populations in the Milky Way require a precise determination of the effective survey volume.
J. Bovy, H. Rix, G. Green, E. Schlafly, D. Finkbeiner   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Using machine learning to classify the diffuse interstellar bands

, 2015
Using over a million and a half extragalactic spectra we study the correlations of the Diffuse Interstellar Bands (DIBs) in the Milky Way. We measure the correlation between DIB strength and dust extinction for 142 DIBs using 24 stacked spectra in the ...
Baron, Dalya, Cox, Nick L. J., Poznanski, Dovi, Prochaska, J. Xavier, Watson, Darach, Yao, Yushu   +5 more
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