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A Color-locus Method for Mapping RV Using Ensembles of Stars

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https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaaa6d
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Abstract

We present a simple but effective technique for measuring angular variation in R V across the sky. We divide stars from the Pan-STARRS1 catalog into Healpix pixels and determine the posterior distribution of reddening and R V for each pixel using two independent Monte Carlo methods. We find the two methods to be self-consistent in the limits where they are expected to perform similarly. We also find some agreement with high-precision photometric studies of R V in Perseus and Ophiuchus, as well as with a map of reddening near the Galactic plane based on stellar spectra from APOGEE. While current studies of R V are mostly limited to isolated clouds, we have developed a systematic method for comparing R V values for the majority of observable dust. This is a proof of concept for a more rigorous Galactic reddening map.



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