Measuring Reddening with SDSS Stellar Spectra

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

Scientific paper

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

Scientific paper

We present measurements of dust reddening using the colors of stars with spectra in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We measure reddening as the difference between the measured colors of a star and the predicted colors, as derived from stellar parameters from the SEGUE Stellar Parameter Pipeline. We achieve uncertainties of 54, 34, 25, and 28 mmag in the colors u-g, g-r, r-i, and i-z, per star, though the uncertainty varies depending on the stellar type and the magnitude of the star. The spectrum-based reddening measurements confirm our earlier "blue tip" reddening measurements, preferring an RV = 3.1 Fitzpatrick (1999) reddening law to O'Donnell (1994) or Cardelli et al. (1989) reddening laws. We obtain a reddening law normalization within 4% of the blue tip results, despite the somewhat different sky footprint used in the two analyses.

No associations

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for scientists and scientific papers. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Measuring Reddening with SDSS Stellar Spectra does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Measuring Reddening with SDSS Stellar Spectra, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Measuring Reddening with SDSS Stellar Spectra will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1205881

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.