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The Extinction Law in the Magellanic Clouds

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THE Magellanic clouds contain only small amounts of obscuring matter compared with our galaxy. The maximum reddening observed is of the order of EB−V = 0.5 magnitudes, and UBV photometry suggests that the extinction law in the clouds follows the 1/λ law1.

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  1. Royal Observatory, Edinburgh

    M. T. BRÜCK, L. C. LAWRENCE & K. N. NANDY

  2. Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria

    A. D. THACKERAY & R. WOOD

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BRÜCK, M., LAWRENCE, L., NANDY, K. et al. The Extinction Law in the Magellanic Clouds. Nature 225, 531–532 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225531a0

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