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NED Extinction Calculator

Permalinks

https://doi.org/10.26132/NED5
https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/doi/10.26132/NED5

DOI

10.26132/NED5

Publisher

IPAC

Author(s)

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)

Title

NED Extinction Calculator

Description

The NED extinction calculator returns the foreground Galactic extinction at an input position using the Schlafly & Finkbeiner 2011 (ApJ 737, 103, 2011) recalibration of the Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis 1998 (ApJ 500, 525, 1998; SFD98) extinction map. The original SFD98 extinction values are also returned for comparison purposes.

Data type

Service

Url

https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/extinction_calculator

Version

Date of data collection

Year of publication