The Blue Tip of the Stellar Locus: Measuring Reddening with the SDSS

Details The Blue Tip of the Stellar Locus: Measuring Reddening with the SDSS The Blue Tip of the Stellar Locus: Measuring Reddening with the SDSS

2010-09-24

arxiv.org/abs/1009.4933v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

18 pages, 22 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-637X/725/1/1175

We present measurements of reddening due to dust using the colors of stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We measure the color of main sequence turn-off stars by finding the "blue tip" of the stellar locus: the prominent blue edge in the distribution of stellar colors. The method is sensitive to color changes of order 18, 12, 7, and 8 mmag of reddening in the colors u-g, g-r, r-i, and i-z, respectively, in regions measuring 90' by 14'. We present maps of the blue tip colors in each of these bands over the entire SDSS footprint, including the new dusty southern Galactic cap data provided by the SDSS-III. The results disfavor the best fit O'Donnell (1994) and Cardelli et al. (1989) reddening laws, but are well described by a Fitzpatrick (1999) reddening law with R_V = 3.1. The SFD dust map is found to trace the dust well, but overestimates reddening by factors of 1.4, 1.0, 1.2, and 1.4 in u-g, g-r, r-i, and i-z, largely due to the adopted reddening law. In select dusty regions of the sky, we find evidence for problems in the SFD temperature correction. A dust map normalization difference of 15% between the Galactic north and south sky may be due to these dust temperature errors.

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