Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jan 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985a%26a...142..189t&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 142, no. 1, Jan. 1985, p. 189-198.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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B Stars, Interstellar Extinction, Interstellar Matter, Milky Way Galaxy, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Cosmic Dust, Globular Clusters, Hubble Constant, Interstellar Gas, Main Sequence Stars, Stellar Luminosity
Scientific paper
Values of interstellar reddening derived from uvby photometry of intermediate and high latitude B stars are used to test between the conflicting ideas of total galactic reddening expounded by Burstein and Heiles (1982) and de Vaucouleurs and Buta (1983). B stars are useful tracers of the galactic reddening because of their empirically and theoretically well-defined colours, and their large distances, but peculiar colours can result in an overestimate of the interstellar reddening, and Nicolet's (1982) B-star estimates of the polar reddening are too high because of this. Selection criteria are developed to exclude B stars with peculiar colours, and 72 selected B stars more than 250 pc from the galactic plane support the Burstein and Heiles zero-point of galactic reddening. The evidence of a few stars supports Burstein and Heiles' use of deep galaxy counts to provide a first-order correction for variations in the dust-to-gas ratio, but for corrections E (b - y) > 0.03 the accuracy may be less than their claimed 10%. However, the comparison of photometrically-derived values of interstellar reddening with values predicted by some model is inevitably partly subjective unless an extensive study is made of every individual star because otherwise any insufficiently red star can always plausibly be discounted as not outside all of the galactic dust, and any star that is too red can always plausibly be discounted as e.g. an undetected binary or emission-line star. The Burstein and Heiles maps are used to determine the intrinsic colours of some slightly-reddened B stars. B stars with projected rotational velocities of 250-300 km s-1 do not appear to be significantly redder than the Crawford (1978) standard relation.
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