Correcting for the Effects of Interstellar Extinction

1998/09/29 by Edward L. Fitzpatrick, E. L. Fitzpatrick, Edward L. Fitzpatrick · 3,263 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Atmospheric Ozone and Climate #Calibration and Measurement Techniques #Extinction (optical mineralogy) #Galaxy #Optics #Photometry (optics) #Physics #Stars #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Wavelength #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/316293

published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 111(755), 63-75 (Institute of Physics) · To appear in PASP (January 1999) 14 pages including 4 pages of figures Uses emulateapj style. PASP, in press (January 1999)

arxiv created 1998/09/29 · openalex publication_date 1999/01/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of how best to correct astronomical data for the wavelength‐dependent effects of Galactic interstellar extinction. The main general features of extinction from the IR through the UV are reviewed, along with the nature of observed spatial variations. The enormous range of extinction properties found in the Galaxy, particularly in the UV spectral region, is illustrated. Fortunately, there are some tight constraints on the wavelength dependence of extinction and some general correlations between extinction curve shape and interstellar environment. These relationships provide some guidance for correcting data for the effects of extinction. Several strategies for dereddening are discussed along with estimates of the uncertainties inherent in each method. In the Appendix, a new derivation of the wavelength dependence of an average Galactic extinction curve from the IR through the UV is presented, along with a new estimate of how this extinction law varies with the parameter R≡A(V)/ E ( B − V ). These curves represent the true monochromatic wavelength dependence of extinction and, as such, are suitable for dereddening IR–UV spectrophotometric data of any resolution and can be used to derive extinction relations for any photometry system.

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• Lyα ESCAPE FROMz∼ 0.03 STAR-FORMING GALAXIES: THE DOMINANT ROLE OF OUTFLOWS
• The ALHAMBRA survey: tight dependence of the optical mass-to-light ratio on galaxy colour up to z = 1.5
• UV Extinction as a More Fundamental Measure of Dust than E(B − V) or A V
• The detection and X-ray view of the changing look AGN HE 1136-2304
• Chandra and Magellan/FIRE follow-up observations of PSO167–13: An X-ray weak QSO at z = 6.515
• Revisiting Attenuation Curves: The Case of NGC 3351*
• Are dry mergers dry, moist or wet?
• Na-O anticorrelation and HB
• MULTI-EPOCH NEAR-INFRARED INTERFEROMETRY OF THE SPATIALLY RESOLVED DISK AROUND THE BE STAR ζ TAU
• Detection of the optical counterpart of the proposed double degenerate polar RX J1914+24
• A search for near-infrared counterparts of two faint neutron star X-ray transients: XMMU J174716.1−281048 and SAX J1806.5−2215
• The Bright γ-ray Flare of 3C 279 in 2015 June: AGILE Detection and Multifrequency Follow-up Observations
• CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES IN THE SUPERBLINK PROPER MOTION SURVEY
• Integral Field Spectroscopy of Supernova Remnant 1E0102–7219 Reveals Fast-moving Hydrogen and Sulfur-rich Ejecta
• Metallicity and star formation activities of the interacting system Arp 86 from observations with MOS on the Xinglong 2.16 m telescope
• Optical polarization of high-energy BL Lacertae objects
• THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY (NGVS). XXV. FIDUCIAL PANCHROMATIC COLORS OF VIRGO CORE GLOBULAR CLUSTERS AND THEIR COMPARISON TO MODEL PREDICTIONS
• The First Ultraviolet Detection of the Large Magellanic Cloud Pulsar PSR B0540–69 and Its Multi-wavelength Properties
• Ultraviolet Extinction Properties in the Milky Way
• SDSS-IV MaNGA: the impact of diffuse ionized gas on emission-line ratios, interpretation of diagnostic diagrams and gas metallicity measurements
• An edge-on translucent dust disk around the nearest AGB star, L2Puppis
• First Results from the CHARA Array. I. An Interferometric and Spectroscopic Study of the Fast Rotator α Leonis (Regulus)
• UKIRT-2017-BLG-001Lb: A Giant Planet Detected through the Dust
• A DISK-BASED DYNAMICAL CONSTRAINT ON THE MASS OF THE YOUNG BINARY DQ TAU
• A MAP OF DUST REDDENING TO 4.5 kpc FROM Pan-STARRS1
• Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds: A Detailed Spectroscopic Analysis
• Surrogate modelling the Baryonic Universe – I. The colour of star formation
• Discovery of an ∼30-yr-duration post-nova pulsating supersoft source in the Large Magellanic Cloud
• Interstellar Dust Models Consistent with Extinction, Emission, and Abundance Constraints
• HYPERCALIBRATION: A PAN-STARRS1-BASED RECALIBRATION OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY PHOTOMETRY
• A Photometric Method to Search for Be Stars in Open Clusters
• Bright Planetary Nebulae and their Progenitors in Galaxies Without Star Formation
• THE NEAREST HIGH-VELOCITY STARS REVEALED BY LAMOST DATA RELEASE 1
• QUASAR-GALAXY CLUSTERING THROUGH PROJECTED GALAXY COUNTS ATz= 0.6-1.2
• Low-mass X-ray binaries as a stellar mass indicator for the host galaxy
• Hubble Space TelescopeImaging of the WR 38/WR 38a Cluster
• An Analysis of the Shapes of Ultraviolet Extinction Curves. IV. Extinction without Standards
• Stellar Cluster Fiducial Sequences with the Advanced Camera for Surveys
• Spectral Decomposition of Broad-Line AGNs and Host Galaxies
• Medium resolution spectroscopy of the supergiant O31f Cyg OB2 No. 7
• Precise astronomical flux calibration and its impact on studying the nature of the dark energy
• Constraining early-time dust formation in core-collapse supernovae
• The Complete Sample of Available SNe Ia Luminosity Calibrations from the TRGB Observed with either HST or JWST
• Gas in Galaxies
• THE AFTERGLOW OF GRB 130427A FROM 1 TO 1016GHz
• Sleeping Giants Arise: Monitoring the Return of Three Changing-Look Quasars to Their High States
• Absence of an X-shaped Structure in the Milky Way Bulge Using Mira Variable Stars
• OPTICAL-ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRUM AND PROPER MOTION OF THE MIDDLE-AGED PULSAR B1055–52
• NO OPEN CLUSTER IN THE RUPRECHT 93 REGION
• THE WFC3 GALACTIC BULGE TREASURY PROGRAM: METALLICITY ESTIMATES FOR THE STELLAR POPULATION AND EXOPLANET HOSTS
• Medium-resolution Isaac Newton Telescope library of empirical spectra
• The Carnegie Supernova Project II
• The Carnegie Supernova Project II
• How much graphene in space? [europepmc]
• Calcium in a supernova remnant as a fingerprint of a sub-Chandrasekhar-mass explosion. [europepmc]
• A tidal disruption event from an intermediate-mass black hole revealed by comprehensive multi-wavelength observations. [europepmc]
• The faintest, extremely variable X-ray tidal disruption event from a supermassive black hole binary? [europepmc]

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