A Quantitative Comparison of the Small Magellanic Cloud, Large Magellanic Cloud, and Milky Way Ultraviolet to Near-Infrared Extinction Curves

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 594, Issue 1 I, 2003, Pages 279-293

  Gordon, Karl D ^a   Clayton, Geoffrey C ^b   Misselt, K A ^a   Landolt, Arlo U ^b   Wolff, Michael J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust, extinction; Galaxies: ISM; Magellanic clouds; Ultraviolet: ISM

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141792454     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/376774     Document Type: Article

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