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Title: Halal et al. 2024 3D Dust Complexity Maps
The 3D dust complexity maps used in the main result of Section 4 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11009">"Imprints of the Local Bubble and Dust Complexity on Polarized Dust Emission," Halal et al. 2024</a>. Use of these data must cite that paper. We provide 12 maps, corresponding to the 12 posterior sample 3D dust extinction maps of <a href="https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/05/aa47628-23/aa47628-23.html">Edenhofer et al. 2023</a>, which extend radially out to 1.25 kpc. The maps we provide are in Galactic coordinates and are only defined over the masks described in <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11009">Halal et al. 2024</a>.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2106607
PAR ID:
10562789
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Harvard Dataverse
Date Published:
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
Astronomy Astrophysics Dust Polarization Interstellar Medium
Format(s):
Medium: X Size: 4728960 Other: application/fits
Size(s):
4728960
Right(s):
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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