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Interstellar Extinction at High Galactic Latitudes: An Analytical Approximation

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Distance dependences of interstellar extinction (\({{A}_{V}}(d)\)) for a number of high-latitude areas of the southern sky were obtained using the data of the RAVE DR6 spectroscopic survey and the Gaia DR2/EDR3 astrometric survey. These dependencies were approximated by the classical barometric function (cosecant law). Function parameters were then approximated by spherical functions. The resulting analytical 3D model of interstellar extinction AV  can be used to estimate the values of \({{A}_{{{\text{Gal}}}}}\) for the stars in the Galaxy with known parallaxes, as well as the total (galactic) extinction values in a given direction.

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  1. http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~emamajek/EEM_dwarf_UBVIJHK_colors_Teff.txt

  2. https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/DUST/.

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The authors acknowledge the referee of the paper for the comments, which helped to improve it significantly. The authors would like to thank Kirill Grishin for his help and Eric Mamajek for the calibration tables. We have made use of NASA ADS bibliographic system and the Topcat package [57].

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    O. Yu. Malkov, A. S. Avdeeva & D. A. Kovaleva

  2. National Research University High School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

    A. S. Avdeeva

  3. Moscow State University, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia

    A. D. Nekrasov

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Malkov, O.Y., Avdeeva, A.S., Kovaleva, D.A. et al. Interstellar Extinction at High Galactic Latitudes: An Analytical Approximation. Astron. Rep. 66, 526–534 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772922070046

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