Maps of Dust IR Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and CMBR Foregrounds
TLDR
In this paper, the authors presented a reprocessed composite of the COBE/DIRBE and IRAS/ISSA maps, with the zodiacal foreground and confirmed point sources removed.Abstract:
We present a full sky 100 micron map that is a reprocessed composite of the COBE/DIRBE and IRAS/ISSA maps, with the zodiacal foreground and confirmed point sources removed. Before using the ISSA maps, we remove the remaining artifacts from the IRAS scan pattern. Using the DIRBE 100 micron and 240 micron data, we have constructed a map of the dust temperature, so that the 100 micron map can be converted to a map proportional to dust column density. The result of these manipulations is a map with DIRBE-quality calibration and IRAS resolution.
To generate the full sky dust maps, we must first remove zodiacal light contamination as well as a possible cosmic infrared background (CIB). This is done via a regression analysis of the 100 micron DIRBE map against the Leiden- Dwingeloo map of H_I emission, with corrections for the zodiacal light via a suitable expansion of the DIRBE 25 micron flux. For the 100 micron map, no significant CIB is detected. In the 140 micron and 240 micron maps, where the zodiacal contamination is weaker, we detect the CIB at surprisingly high flux levels of 32 \pm 13 nW/m^2/sr at 140 micron, and 17 \pm 4 nW/m^2/sr at 240 micron (95% confidence). This integrated flux is ~2 times that extrapolated from optical galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field.
The primary use of these maps is likely to be as a new estimator of Galactic extinction. We demonstrate that the new maps are twice as accurate as the older Burstein-Heiles estimates in regions of low and moderate reddening. These dust maps will also be useful for estimating millimeter emission that contaminates CMBR experiments and for estimating soft X-ray absorption.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The galaxy population hosting gamma-ray bursts
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the most extensive and complete study of the properties for the largest sample (46 objects) of gamma-ray burst (GRB) host galaxies.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Radius-Luminosity Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei: The Effect of Host-Galaxy Starlight on Luminosity Measurements
Misty C. Bentz,Bradley M. Peterson,Richard W. Pogge,Marianne Vestergaard,Christopher A. Onken,Christopher A. Onken +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the host-galaxy starlight contribution to the continuum luminosity at 5100? through the typical ground-based slit position and geometry used in the reverberation-mapping campaigns.
Journal ArticleDOI
THE NEWFIRM MEDIUM-BAND SURVEY: PHOTOMETRIC CATALOGS, REDSHIFTS, AND THE BIMODAL COLOR DISTRIBUTION OF GALAXIES OUT TO z ∼ 3
Katherine E. Whitaker,Katherine E. Whitaker,Ivo Labbé,Ivo Labbé,Pieter G. van Dokkum,Pieter G. van Dokkum,Gabriel B. Brammer,Gabriel B. Brammer,Gabriel B. Brammer,Mariska Kriek,Mariska Kriek,Mariska Kriek,Danilo Marchesini,Danilo Marchesini,Ryan Quadri,Ryan Quadri,Marijn Franx,Adam Muzzin,Adam Muzzin,Rik J. Williams,Rik J. Williams,Rachel Bezanson,Garth D. Illingworth,Kyoung-Soo Lee,Kyoung-Soo Lee,Britt Lundgren,Erica J. Nelson,Gregory Rudnick,Gregory Rudnick,Tomer Tal,David A. Wake +30 more
TL;DR: In this article, deep near-IR (NIR) medium-bandwidth photometry over the wavelength range 1-1.8 μm in the All-wavelength Extended Groth strip International Survey (AEGIS) and Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) fields was carried out using the NOAO Extremely Wide Field Infrared Imager (NewFIRM) on the Mayall 4 m Telescope on Kitt Peak as part of the NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey.
Journal ArticleDOI
HST Photometry of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in Coma, and an Explanation for the Alleged Structural Dichotomy between Dwarf and Bright Elliptical Galaxies
Alister W. Graham,Rafael Guzman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed archival Hubble Space Telescope F606W images of a sample of 18 dE galaxy candidates in the Coma Cluster and confirmed that the light profiles of the underlying host galaxies display systematic departures from an exponential model that are correlated with the model independent host galaxy luminosity and are not due to biasing from the nuclear component.
Journal ArticleDOI
The INT Photometric Hα Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane (IPHAS)
Janet E. Drew,Robert Greimel,Mike Irwin,A. Aungwerojwit,M. J. Barlow,Romano L. M. Corradi,Jeremy J. Drake,Boris T. Gänsicke,Paul J. Groot,Antonio Hales,E. C. Hopewell,Jonathan Irwin,Christian Knigge,P. Leisy,D. J. Lennon,Antonio Mampaso,M. R. W. Masheder,Mikako Matsuura,L. Morales-Rueda,Rhys Morris,Quentin A. Parker,Steven Phillipps,Pablo Rodríguez-Gil,Pablo Rodríguez-Gil,Gijs H. A. Roelofs,I. Skillen,J. L. Sokoloski,Danny Steeghs,Y. C. Unruh,Kerttu Viironen,Jorick S. Vink,Nicholas A. Walton,A. Witham,Nicholas J. Wright,Albert A. Zijlstra,Almudena Zurita +35 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors simulate IPHAS (r'-Halpha,r'-i') point-source colours using a spectrophotometric library of stellar spectra and available filter transmission profiles.
Related Papers (5)
Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds
The relationship between infrared, optical, and ultraviolet extinction
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical summary
Donald G. York,Jennifer Adelman,John E. Anderson,Scott F. Anderson,James Annis,Neta A. Bahcall,J. A. Bakken,Robert H. Barkhouser,Steven Bastian,E. Berman,William N. Boroski,Steve Bracker,Charlie Briegel,John W. Briggs,Jon Brinkmann,Robert J. Brunner,Scott Burles,Larry N. Carey,Michael A. Carr,Francisco J. Castander,Francisco J. Castander,Bing Chen,Patrick L. Colestock,Andrew J. Connolly,James H. Crocker,István Csabai,István Csabai,Paul C. Czarapata,John Eric Davis,Mamoru Doi,Tom Dombeck,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Nancy Ellman,Brian R. Elms,Brian R. Elms,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Glenn R. Federwitz,Larry Fiscelli,Scott D. Friedman,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Masataka Fukugita,Bruce Gillespie,James E. Gunn,Vijay K. Gurbani,Ernst De Haas,M. Haldeman,Frederick H. Harris,Jeffrey J. E. Hayes,Timothy M. Heckman,Gregory S. Hennessy,Robert B. Hindsley,S. Holm,Donald J. Holmgren,Chi Hao Huang,Charles L. Hull,Don Husby,Shin-Ichi Ichikawa,Takashi Ichikawa,Zěljko Ivezić,Stephen M. Kent,Rita S. J. Kim,E. Kinney,Mark A. Klaene,A. N. Kleinman,Scot Kleinman,Gillian R. Knapp,John Korienek,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Peter Z. Kunszt,D. Q. Lamb,Brian C. Lee,R. French Leger,Siriluk Limmongkol,Carl Lindenmeyer,Dan Long,Craig Loomis,Jon Loveday,Rich Lucinio,Robert H. Lupton,Bryan Mackinnon,Bryan Mackinnon,Edward J. Mannery,Paul M. Mantsch,Bruce Margon,Peregrine M. McGehee,Timothy A. McKay,Avery Meiksin,Aronne Merelli,David G. Monet,Jeffrey A. Munn,Vijay K. Narayanan,Thomas Nash,Eric H. Neilsen,Rich Neswold,Heidi Jo Newberg,Heidi Jo Newberg,Robert C. Nichol,T. Nicinski,T. Nicinski,Mario Nonino,Norio Okada,Sadanori Okamura,Jeremiah P. Ostriker,Russell Owen,A. George Pauls,John Peoples,R. Peterson,Don Petravick,Jeffrey R. Pier,Adrian Pope,Ruth Pordes,Angela Prosapio,R. Rechenmacher,Thomas R. Quinn,Gordon T. Richards,Michael Richmond,Claudio H. Rivetta,Constance M. Rockosi,Kurt Ruthmansdorfer,Dale Sandford,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,Maki Sekiguchi,G. Sergey,Kazuhiro Shimasaku,Walter A. Siegmund,Stephen A. Smee,J. Allyn Smith,S. A. Snedden,Robert Stone,Chris Stoughton,Michael A. Strauss,Christopher W. Stubbs,Mark SubbaRao,Alexander S. Szalay,István Szapudi,Gyula P. Szokoly,Anirudda R. Thakar,Christy Tremonti,Douglas L. Tucker,Alan Uomoto,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Michael S. Vogeley,Patrick Waddell,Shu I. Wang,Masaru Watanabe,David H. Weinberg,Brian Yanny,Naoki Yasuda +151 more
The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
Michael F. Skrutskie,Michael F. Skrutskie,Roc M. Cutri,R. Stiening,Martin D. Weinberg,Stephen E. Schneider,John M. Carpenter,Chas Beichman,R. Capps,T. Chester,J. Elias,John P. Huchra,James Liebert,C. Lonsdale,David G. Monet,Stephan D. Price,Patrick Seitzer,Thomas H. Jarrett,J. D. Kirkpatrick,John E. Gizis,E. Howard,T. Evans,John W. Fowler,L. Fullmer,Robert L. Hurt,R. M. Light,E. L. Kopan,K. A. Marsh,H. McCallon,R. Tam,S. D. Van Dyk,S. Wheelock +31 more