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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 771, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/771/1/68
Keywords
atlases; dust, extinction; galaxies: photometry; local interstellar matter
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Hubble Fellowship grant from STScI
- AURA under NASA [NAS5-26555]
- [HST-HF-51295.01A]
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In order to study the properties and effects of high Galactic latitude dust, we present an analysis of 373,303 galaxies selected from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer All-Sky Survey and Wide-field Infrared Explorer All-Sky Data Release. By examining the variation in aggregate ultraviolet colors and number density of these galaxies, we measure the extinction curve at high latitude. We additionally consider a population of spectroscopically selected galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to measure extinction in the optical. We find that dust at high latitude is neither quantitatively nor qualitatively consistent with standard reddening laws. Extinction in the FUV and NUV is similar to 10% and similar to 35% higher than expected, with significant variation across the sky. We find that no single R-V parameter fits both the optical and ultraviolet extinction at high latitude, and that while both show detectable variation across the sky, these variations are not related. We propose that the overall trends we detect likely stem from an increase in very small silicate grains in the interstellar medium.
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