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Reddening law and interstellar dust properties along Magellanic sight-lines
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-007-9661-y Bibcode: 2007Ap&SS.312..113Z

Zagury, Frédéric

This study establishes that SMC, LMC and Milky Way extinction curves obey the same extinction law which depends on the 2200 Å bump size and one parameter, and generalizes the Cardelli, Clayton and Mathis (Cardelli et al., Astrophys. J. 345, 245, 1989) relationship. This suggests that extinction in all three galaxies is of the same nature. The role…

2007 Astrophysics and Space Science
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