Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-07-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages TeX without postscript figures (16), uses modified version of aa.cmm. Full paper, including all the postscript figures
Scientific paper
An analysis is made on the morphology of the sequences, formed by stars distributed along the line of sight in (V,V--I) colour-magnitude diagrams from Baade's Window (l=1.0,b=-3.9). The extinction is due to an absorbing layer with an effective thickness of about 100 pc. A linearly, with distance, increasing extinction up to a maximum value inside the absorbing layer is in first order a good approximation for the actual extinction present along the line of sight. We show that the morphology of the disc sequence gives a good indication of the nearby extinction along the line of sight. The morphology of the bulge/bar red horizontal branch is likely due to a combination of differential reddening and a significant metallicity spread among the horizontal branch stars. This is irrespective of the type of extinction law adopted. There is in Baade's Window globally no big difference between a Poissonian or a patchy type of extinction, except for substructures in the morphology of the sequences for the latter.
Bertelli Giampaolo
Ng Yiu-Kai
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