Standard Extinction Laws

 

Full wavelength range (Xray-IR) for extinction, expressed relative to 1µ (AJ)

 

 
The UV-IR portion of the extinction curve, here expressed as E-V/EB-V = RV(A/AV - 1) where RV ~ 3.1 for normal galactic extinction
 
Standard extinction law in tabular form (from B&M)

Image Credits: B&M and Whittet