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We present new results from UKIDSS on the Nuclear Bulge of our Galaxy that shows the previous determinations of the extinction parameter need revising.
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Gosling, A.J., Bandyopadhyay, R.M., Blundell, K.M. (2013). Near Infrared Extinction at the Galactic Centre. In: Adamson, A., Davies, J., Robson, I. (eds) Thirty Years of Astronomical Discovery with UKIRT. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7432-2_18
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