Magellanic Clouds Extinction Maps

An appendix to the paper:
'Empirical calibration of the reddening maps in the Magellanic Clouds'
by Górski et al. (2020)

Reddening maps with different resolutions and corresponding radii of fields are available to download for both Magellanic Clouds.
The E(B-V) is obtained from the (V-I) color measurement of the red clump, with the Cardelli et al. (1989) RV=3.1 reddening law parametrization.

The following columns in .txt files are as follows:
1 - Right Ascension [deg];
2 - Declination [deg];
3 - E(B-V) [mag];
4 - E(B-V) statistical error (based on the (V-I) color measurement uncertainty) [mag];
5 - sigma RC - width of the red clump (V-I) color [mag];
6 - N_RC - number of red clump stars [stars]

Extinction maps
LMC SMC
grid point resolution: 3arcmin; square field lmc_res3 smc_res3
grid point resolution: 5arcmin; circle field radius: 5arcmin lmc_res5_radius5 smc_res5_radius5
grid point resolution: 5arcmin; circle field radius: 7arcmin lmc_res5_radius7 smc_res5_radius7



You may also take a look at histograms depicting statistical error of the reddening determination (σE(B-V)) and number of Red Clump stars (N*) in fields for each map:

LMC σ SMC σ LMC N* SMC N*
grid point resolution: 3arcmin; square field
grid point resolution: 5arcmin; circle field radius: 5arcmin
grid point resolution: 5arcmin; circle field radius: 7arcmin



Images depict extinction maps for both Magellanic Clouds with res=3'
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