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An empirical relation between sodium absorption and dust extinction: Sodium and dust
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Dust extinction and reddening are ubiquitous in astronomical observations and are often a major source of systematic uncertainty. We present here a study of the correlation between extinction in the Milky Way and the equivalent width of the Na i D absorption doublet. Our sample includes more than 100 high-resolution spectra from the Keck telescopes and nearly a million low-resolution spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We measure the correlation to unprecedented precision, constrain its shape and derive an empirical relation between these quantities with a dispersion of the order of 0.15 mag in E(B − V). From the shape of the curve of growth we further show that a typical sight line through the Galaxy, as seen within the SDSS footprint, crosses about three dust clouds. We provide a brief guide on how to best estimate extinction to extragalactic sources such as supernovae, using the Na i D absorption feature, under a variety of circumstances.
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- Poznanski, D., Prochaska, J. X., & Bloom, J. S.
- Venue
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2012-10-01
- Volume
- 426
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 1465-1474
- ISSN
- 0035-8711 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2953212186
- Cited by
- 470
- References
- 14
- FWCI
- 13.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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