K extinction near the Galactic Centre

DOI

We extract J and Ks magnitudes from the 2MASS Point Source Catalog for approximately 6 million stars with 8<Ks<13 in order to build an A_K_ extinction map within 10 degrees of the Galactic centre. The extinction was determined by fitting the upper giant branch of (Ks, J-Ks) colour-magnitude diagrams to a dereddened upper giant branch mean locus built from previously studied Bulge fields. The extinction values vary from A_K=0.05 in the edges of the map up to A_K=3.2 close to the Galactic centre. The resulting extinction map is given in the file 'extmap.dat'.

Cone search capability for table J/MNRAS/338/253/extmap (Extinction map (181 x 181 points))

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.73380253
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/338/253
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/338/253
Related Identifier https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/338/253
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/338/253
Provenance
Creator Dutra C.M.; Santiago B.X.; Bica E.L.D.; Barbuy B.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2003
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Interstellar medium; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics