A Quantitative Comparison of the Small Magellanic Cloud, Large Magellanic Cloud, and Milky Way Ultraviolet to Near‐Infrared Extinction Curves

D. Gordon, Karl; C. Clayton, Geoffrey; A. Misselt, K.; U. Landolt, Arlo; J. Wolff, Michael

doi:10.1086/376774

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A Quantitative Comparison of the Small Magellanic Cloud, Large Magellanic Cloud, and Milky Way Ultraviolet to Near‐Infrared Extinction Curves

Published in The Astrophysical Journal • Aug 20, 2003

Authors:

Karl D. Gordon

Geoffrey C. Clayton

K. A. Misselt

Abstract

We present an exhaustive, quantitative comparison of all of the known extinction curves in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC and LMC) with our understanding of the general behavior of Milky Way extinction curves. The R_V dependent CCM relationship and the sample of extinction curves used to...

Subject

Physics

Milky Way

Extinction (optical mineralogy)

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