2MASS Two-Color Interstellar Reddening Lines in the Inner Galaxy

Details 2MASS Two-Color Interstellar Reddening Lines in the Inner Galaxy 2MASS Two-Color Interstellar Reddening Lines in the Inner Galaxy

2009-02-06

arxiv.org/abs/0902.1144v2

Baltic Astronomy, vol. 17, 253-275, 2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

23 pages, 7 figures

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The slopes of interstellar reddening lines in the 2MASS J-H versus H-Ks diagrams for 26 areas in the inner Galaxy (from Vulpecula to Centaurus) are determined. For this aim we use the red-clump giants located inside and behind spiral arms, or behind dense dust clouds of the Local arm. In most of the investigated directions the ratio E(J-H)/E(H-K_s) is found to be between 1.9 and 2.0, taking the stars with the visual extinction less than 12 mag. The stars with larger extinction deviate down from the reddening lines corresponding to less reddened stars. Probably, this is related to the curvature of reddening lines due to the band-width effect. However, some of the deviating stars may be heavily reddened oxygen- and carbon-rich AGB stars (giants of the latest M subclasses or N-type carbon stars), and pre-main-sequence objects (YSOs).

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