Application of SFD Dust Maps to Galaxy Counts and CMB Experiments

1998/09/17 by D. J. Schlegel, Schlegel, D. J., D. P. Finkbeiner +3 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9809230

To appear in: Wide Field Surveys in Cosmology, eds. S. Colombi and Y. Mellier; Latex file, 4 pages with 2 figures

arxiv created 1998/09/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We have constructed a full-sky map of the far-infrared suitable for measuring Galactic reddening and extinction (Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis 1998: SFD). The SFD map is based upon extensive re-analysis of data from the COBE/DIRBE and IRAS satellite missions. We demonstrate that the maps can correct for extinction problems in the APM galaxy survey. We also determine the most dust-free regions for conducting cosmic microwave background or soft X-ray experiments of extragalactic objects.

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