Dust Scattering from the Taurus Molecular Cloud
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2017-03-15 v1
Abstract
We present an analysis of the diffuse ultraviolet (UV) emission near the Taurus Molecular Cloud based on observations made by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX). We used a Monte Carlo dust scattering model to show that about half of the scattered flux originates in the molecular cloud with 25% arising in the foreground and 25% behind the cloud. The best-fit albedo of the dust grains is 0.3 but the geometry is such that we could not constrain the phase function asymmetry factor (g).
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@article{arxiv.1612.05783,
title = {Dust Scattering from the Taurus Molecular Cloud},
author = {Sathyanarayan and Jayant Murthy and K. Narayanankutty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05783},
year = {2017}
}
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8 pages, 14 figures, 1 table