Interstellar extinction and reddening are inescapable sources of uncertainty in the study of astronomical objects. Many creative ways to measure its effects have been developed, two of them being evaluated in this study. I apply two recently improved methods to estimate extinction toward individual stars, one based on interstellar absorption of sodium and the other based on opacity maps of the interstellar medium. The methods are applied to 14 stars in the local neighborhood, all within a distance of 250 pc from the Sun, and their results are compared. I find that both methods have severe limitations and large uncertainties, but can still be useful under the right conditions. I also provide suggestions on how the methods can be improved.Int...
The interstellar reddening law is investigated along the Galactic equator near the Cam, Per and Cas ...
We present a new method for deriving UV-through-IR extinction curves, based on the use of stellar at...
Line-of-sight extinction estimates to well-studied young T Tauri and Herbig Ae/Be stars are based on...
Interstellar extinction and reddening are inescapable sources of uncertainty in the study of astrono...
The mystery of Canis Major overdensity is addressed. We discuss concurrent methods and their limitat...
Interstellar absorption in the galactic plane is highly variable from one direction to another. In t...
We present new measurements of the interstellar reddening parameter $R_V=A_V/E(B-V)$ towards 35 O st...
By using the 'standard pair' technique of pairing stars of almost nil and high extinction ...
Aims. Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) measured in stellar spectra contain information on the amoun...
Photoelectric scanner observations are combined with infrared photometry in the JHKL bands to give i...
This paper addresses the issue of how best to correct astronomical data for the wavelength-dependent...
Filter photometry has been used to derive the interstellar reddening law from stars through the stud...
We test the recently published all-sky reddening map of Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis (1998 [SFD]) us...
Context. The details of how galaxies have evolved over cosmological times are imprinted in their sta...
Aims. We used 12 530 photometrically-selected blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars from the Sloan Digi...
The interstellar reddening law is investigated along the Galactic equator near the Cam, Per and Cas ...
We present a new method for deriving UV-through-IR extinction curves, based on the use of stellar at...
Line-of-sight extinction estimates to well-studied young T Tauri and Herbig Ae/Be stars are based on...
Interstellar extinction and reddening are inescapable sources of uncertainty in the study of astrono...
The mystery of Canis Major overdensity is addressed. We discuss concurrent methods and their limitat...
Interstellar absorption in the galactic plane is highly variable from one direction to another. In t...
We present new measurements of the interstellar reddening parameter $R_V=A_V/E(B-V)$ towards 35 O st...
By using the 'standard pair' technique of pairing stars of almost nil and high extinction ...
Aims. Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) measured in stellar spectra contain information on the amoun...
Photoelectric scanner observations are combined with infrared photometry in the JHKL bands to give i...
This paper addresses the issue of how best to correct astronomical data for the wavelength-dependent...
Filter photometry has been used to derive the interstellar reddening law from stars through the stud...
We test the recently published all-sky reddening map of Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis (1998 [SFD]) us...
Context. The details of how galaxies have evolved over cosmological times are imprinted in their sta...
Aims. We used 12 530 photometrically-selected blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars from the Sloan Digi...
The interstellar reddening law is investigated along the Galactic equator near the Cam, Per and Cas ...
We present a new method for deriving UV-through-IR extinction curves, based on the use of stellar at...
Line-of-sight extinction estimates to well-studied young T Tauri and Herbig Ae/Be stars are based on...