Information on Service 'Magellanic Clouds Extinction Values'

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A catalogue of E(V-I) extinction values is presented for 3174 (LMC) and 693 (SMC) fields within the Magellanic Clouds. The extinction values were computed by determining the (V-I) colour difference of the red clump from Optical Gravitational Microlensing Experiment (OGLE III) observations in the V and I bands and theoretical values for unreddend red clump colours.

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Service Documentation

The Optical Gravitational Microlensing Experiment (OGLE III) has monitored both Magellanic Clouds in the V and I band. Using the public stellar photometry database of OGLE III in order to derive spatially resolved reddening maps, we subdivide the OGLE III observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in 3174 subfields. The size of the fields varies from 4.5 x 4.5 square arcmin to 36 x 36 square arcmin in order to ensure that each field contains at least 300 stars and no more than 4800 stars. I.e., in dense regions our reddening resolution is higher.

In each of these subfields the mean (V-I) colour of the red clump is determined. A theoretical colour of (V-I):sub:0 = 0.92 mag is adopted for the LMC and subtracted from the measured value. The difference is defined as reddening E(V-I). To provide you directly useable data we calculated the reddening for different filters by adopting Schlegels list of conversion factors (Table 6 in Schlegel et al. 1998, AJ, 500, 525). To use this table the extinction has to be recalculated from E(B-V) to E(V-I). For this purpose we adopted E(V-I) = 1.38 × E(B-V) (Tammann et al. 2003, A&A, 404, 423).

For the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) the same procedure is used. The OGLE III data are subdivided into 693 contiguous subfields. The reddening of each subfield is determined adopting a theoretical colour of (V-I)0 = 0.89 mag.

The following table (containing values taken from 1998ApJ...500..525S) shows the laws adopted to compute extinction values in the various bands:

Filter name λeff A/A(V) A/E(B-V) A/E(V-I)
Landolt U 3372 1.66 5.43 3.94
Landolt B 4404 1.32 4.32 3.13
Landolt V 5428 1.02 3.32 2.4
Landolt R 6509 0.82 2.67 1.94
Landolt I 8090 0.59 1.94 1.41
Gunn g 5244 1.07 3.48 2.52
Gunn r 6707 0.79 2.59 1.88
Gunn i 7985 0.61 1.99 1.44
Gunn z 9055 0.47 1.54 1.12
Stromgren u 3502 1.6 5.23 3.79
Stromgren b 4676 1.24 4.05 2.93
Stromgren v 4127 1.39 4.55 3.3
Stromgren beta 4861 1.18 3.86 2.8
Stromgren y 5479 1 3.28 2.37
Sloan u' 3546 1.58 5.16 3.74
Sloan g' 4925 1.16 3.79 2.75
Sloan r' 6335 0.84 2.75 1.99
Sloan i' 7799 0.64 2.09 1.51
Sloan z' 9294 0.45 1.48 1.07

Crossmatching with your tables

If you want to add extinctions to your own tables, use TAP. Our TAP server has the ivo-id ivo://org.gavo.dc/__system__/tap/run. You will need a TAP client to do this. Recent versions of TOPCAT, for example, allow you use TAP. To add a column with the reddening, load the table into TOPCAT and note its id (that's the number in front of the colon in the Table List in TOPCAT's main window; if you've just started TOPCAT, that's 1).

Then, select TAP from the TOPCAT's VO menu, at the bottom ("TAP URL") enter http://dc.g-vo.org/tap and click "Enter Query".

In the resulting dialog, enter:

SELECT ev_i, mine.* FROM
        mcextinct.exts AS exts
        JOIN tap_upload.t1 AS mine
        ON (1=CONTAINS(POINT('ICRS', mine.raj2000, mine.dej2000),exts.bbox))

If your table has id 15, say, change tap_upload.t1 to tap_upload.t15. You will also need to fix the column names for RA and Dec (written as raj2000 and dej2000 here).

To compute extinctions in specific bands, use the factors given in the A/E(V-I) column in the table above above. To, e.g., add the extinctions in Sloan u' and Sloan z', say:

SELECT ev_i*3.74 as A_sloan_u, ev_i*1.07 as A_sloan_z, mine.* FROM
        mcextinct.exts AS exts
        JOIN tap_upload.t1 AS mine
        ON (1=CONTAINS(POINT('ICRS', mine.raj2000, mine.dej2000),exts.bbox))

For batch processing, similar operations can be done with STILTS or GAVO's tapsh. For the latter, you could use a shell script like the following to add an ev_i column to the file named in the first command line argument argument (note the backup); again, you'll need to fix the column names for RA and Dec:

#!/bin/sh
cp $1 $1.bak
tapsh <<EOF
server ivo://org.gavo.dc/__system__/tap/run
SELECT ev_i, mine.* FROM                mcextinct.exts AS exts          JOIN tap_upload.mytable AS mine                 ON (1=CONTAINS(POINT('ICRS', mine.raj2000, mine.dej2000),exts.bbox))
upload "$1" as mytable
run
save "$1"
EOF

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Input Fields

The following fields are available to provide input to the service (with some renderers, some of these fields may be unavailable):

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
_ADDITEM Extinctions for band(s) Check bands you want extinctions for N/A N/A
DEC Delta (ICRS) Declination (ICRS decimal) deg pos.eq.dec
ev_i E(V-I) Reddening (color difference between observation and theory, V-I) mag phot.color.excess;em.opt.V;em.opt.I
hscs_pos Position/Name Coordinates (as h m s, d m s or decimal degrees), or SIMBAD-resolvable object N/A N/A
hscs_sr Search radius Search radius in arcminutes N/A N/A
maxrec Match limit Maximum number of records returned. Pass 0 to retrieve service parameters. N/A N/A
RA Alpha (ICRS) Right Ascension (ICRS decimal) deg pos.eq.ra
responseformat Output Format File format requested for output. N/A meta.code.mime
SR Search Radius Search radius deg N/A
verb Verbosity Exhaustiveness of column selection. VERB=1 only returns the most important columns, VERB=2 selects the columns deemed useful to the average user, VERB=3 returns a table with all available columns. N/A N/A

Default Output Fields

The following fields are contained in the output by default. More fields may be available for selection; these would be given below in the VOTable output fields.

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
bbox Bounding Box Bounding box for the extinction data N/A pos.outline;obs.field
centerAlpha RA Area center RA ICRS deg pos.eq.ra;meta.main
centerDelta Dec Area center Declination ICRS deg pos.eq.dec;meta.main
ev_i E(V-I) Reddening (color difference between observation and theory, V-I) mag phot.color.excess;em.opt.V;em.opt.I
row_id ID Artificial key for this row N/A meta.id;meta.main
sig_ev_i σ(E(V-I)) Differential reddening calculated as FWHM of the red clump star distribution mag stat.stdev;phot.color.excess

VOTable Output Fields

The following fields are available in VOTable output. The verbosity level is a number intended to represent the relative importance of the field on a scale of 1 to 30. The services take a VERB argument. A field is included in the output if their verbosity level is less or equal VERB*10.

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD Verb. Level
row_id ID Artificial key for this row N/A meta.id;meta.main 1
centerAlpha RA Area center RA ICRS deg pos.eq.ra;meta.main 1
centerDelta Dec Area center Declination ICRS deg pos.eq.dec;meta.main 1
ev_i E(V-I) Reddening (color difference between observation and theory, V-I) mag phot.color.excess;em.opt.V;em.opt.I 1
bbox Bounding Box Bounding box for the extinction data N/A pos.outline;obs.field 10
a_U Landolt U Extinction in Landolt U, computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 10
a_B Landolt B Extinction in Landolt B, computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 10
a_V Landolt V Extinction in Landolt V, computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 10
a_R Landolt R Extinction in Landolt R, computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 10
a_I Landolt I Extinction in Landolt I, computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 10
a_slu Sloan u' Extinction in Sloan u', computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 15
a_slg Sloan g' Extinction in Sloan g', computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 15
a_slr Sloan r' Extinction in Sloan r', computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 15
a_sli Sloan i' Extinction in Sloan i', computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 15
a_slz Sloan z' Extinction in Sloan z', computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 15
sig_ev_i σ(E(V-I)) Differential reddening calculated as FWHM of the red clump star distribution mag stat.stdev;phot.color.excess 20
a_gg Gunn g Extinction in Gunn g, computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 21
a_gr Gunn r Extinction in Gunn r, computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 21
a_gi Gunn i Extinction in Gunn i, computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 21
a_gz Gunn z Extinction in Gunn z, computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 21
a_su Stromgren u Extinction in Stromgren u, computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 25
a_sb Stromgren b Extinction in Stromgren b, computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 25
a_sv Stromgren v Extinction in Stromgren v, computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 25
a_sbeta Stromgren beta Extinction in Stromgren beta, computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 25
a_sy Stromgren y Extinction in Stromgren y, computed as described in the reference URL mag phys.absorption;em.opt 25

If you use this data, please cite Haschke, R., Grebel, E., Duffau, S., 2011: "New Optical Reddening Maps of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds", AJ 141, 158, 2011AJ....141..158H

The photometric data of the red clump is provided by the OGLE collaboration.

Part of this research was supported by SFB 881 "The Milky Way System".

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