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Galactic dust and extinction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Gösta Lyngå
Gösta Lyngå*
Affiliation:
Lund Observatory, Sweden

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The ratio R between visual extinction and colour excess, is slightly larger than 3 and does not vary much throughout our part of the Galaxy. The distribution of dust in the galactic plane shows, on the large scale, a gradient with higher colour excesses towards 1=50° than towards 1=230°. On the smaller scale, much of the dust responsible for extinction is situated in clouds which tend to group together. The correlation between positions of interstellar dust clouds and positions of spiral tracers seems rather poor in our Galaxy. However, concentrated dark clouds as well as extended regions of dust show an inclined distribution similar to the Gould belt of bright stars.

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