Mid-infrared extinction and its variation with galactic longitude

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 707, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 89-102

  Gao, Jian ^a,b   Jiang, B W ^a   Li, Aigen ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust, extinction; Galaxy: bulge; Galaxy: structure; Infrared: ISM; Infrared: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749091457     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/707/1/89     Document Type: Article

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