Jian Gao et al. 2009 ApJ 707 89 doi:10.1088/0004-637X/707/1/89
Jian Gao1,2, B. W. Jiang1 and Aigen Li2
Show affiliationsBased on the data obtained from the Spitzer/Galactic Legacy Infrared Midplane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIPMSE) Legacy Program and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) project, we derive the extinction in the four IRAC bands, [3.6], [4.5], [5.8], and [8.0] μm, relative to the 2MASS Ks band (at 2.16 μm) for 131 GLIPMSE fields along the Galactic plane within |l| ≤ 65o, using red giants and red clump giants as tracers. As a whole, the mean extinction in the IRAC bands (normalized to the 2MASS Ks band),
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, exhibits little variation with wavelength (i.e., the extinction is somewhat flat or gray). This is consistent with previous studies and agrees with that predicted from the standard interstellar grain model for RV = 5.5 by Weingartner & Draine. As far as individual sightline is concerned, however, the wavelength dependence of the mid-infrared interstellar extinction
varies from one sightline to another, suggesting that there may not exist a "universal" IR extinction law. We, for the first time, demonstrate the existence of systematic variations of extinction with Galactic longitude which appears to correlate with the locations of spiral arms as well as with the variation of the far-infrared luminosity of interstellar dust.
dust, extinction; Galaxy: bulge; Galaxy: structure; infrared: ISM; infrared: stars
Issue 1 (2009 December 10)
Received 2009 May 4, accepted for publication 2009 October 19
Published 2009 November 18
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