Reddening in LMC bar region

V, I photometry of red clump stars identified in the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment II (OGLE-II) catalogue of LMC were used to estimate reddening. E(V-I) values were estimated as the difference between observed and the characteristic values of (V-I) for the red clump population in a given region.

It is found that most of the regions in the bar have reddening values less than 0.1mag with only a few locations having values more than 0.2mag. The eastern side of the bar is found to be more reddened when compared to the western side, with similar and relatively small values for differential reddening as in most parts of the bar. Increased reddening in the eastern end of the bar could be caused by a small fraction of the H I clouds in the line of sight.