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Recent UV observations together with complementary visible data of several reddened and comparison stars of similar spectral types in the Large Magellanic Cloud have been used to study the interstellar extinction in that galaxy. Most of the reddened stars studied here are located within 2° of 30 Doradus and show remarkably high extinction in the far UV, suggesting a large abundance of small particles. From the optical wavelength to 2,600 Å the normalised extinction curves of the LMC stars are similar to the mean galactic extinction law.
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Nandy, K., Morgan, D., Willis, A. et al. Interstellar extinction in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Nature 283, 725–729 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/283725a0
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