Reddening and extinction toward the galactic bulge from OGLE-III: The Inner Milky Way's RV ~ 2.5 extinction curve

Nataf, David; Gould, A; Fouque, P.; Gonzalez, Oscar A.; Johnson, Jennifer A; Skowron, Jan; Udalski, A; Szymanski, M; Kubiak, M; Pietrzynski, G; Soszynski, I.; Ulaczyk, K; Wyrzykowski, L; Poleski, R

Reddening and extinction toward the galactic bulge from OGLE-III: The Inner Milky Way's RV ~ 2.5 extinction curve

Date

2013

Authors

Nataf, David

Gould, A

Fouque, P.

Gonzalez, Oscar A.

Johnson, Jennifer A

Skowron, Jan

Udalski, A

Szymanski, M

Kubiak, M

Pietrzynski, G

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We combine VI photometry from OGLE-III with VISTA Variables in The Via Lactea survey and Two Micron All Sky Survey measurements of E(J-Ks ) to resolve the longstanding problem of the non-standard optical extinction toward the Galactic bulge. We show that