Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-04-11
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.369:1901-1910,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10436.x
The near infrared extinction powerlaw index ($\beta$) and its uncertainty is derived from three different techniques based on star counts, colour excess and a combination of them. We have applied these methods to 2MASS data to determine maps of $\beta$ and near infrared extinction of the small cloud IC 1396 W. The combination of star counts and colour excess results in the most reliable method to determine $\beta$. It is found that the use of the correct $\beta$-map to transform colour excess values into extinction is fundamental for column density profile analysis of clouds. We describe how artificial photometric data, based on the model of stellar population synthesis of the Galaxy (Robin et al. 2003), can be used to estimate uncertainties and derive systematic effects of the extinction methods presented here. We find that all colour excess based extinction determination methods are subject to small but systematic offsets, which do not affect the star counting technique. These offsets occur since stars seen through a cloud do not represent the same population as stars in an extinction free control field.
del Burgo Carlos
Froebrich Dirk
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