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The nearby universe remains the best laboratory to understand physical properties of galaxies and is a reference for any comparison with high redshift observations. The all sky (or very large) surveys performed from the ultraviolet (UV) to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 V. Buat , E. Giovannoli , T. T. Takeuchi , S. Heinis , F. T. Yuan , D. Burgarella , S. Noll , J. Iglesias-Paramo

I have used Monte Carlo models with multiple scattering to predict the dust scattered light from our Galaxy and have compared the predictions with data in two UV bands from the GALEX spacecraft. I find that 90\% of the scattered light…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-12 Jayant Murthy

We have constructed a far-ultraviolet (FUV) continuum map of the Taurus-Auriga-Perseus complex, one of the largest local associations of dark clouds, by merging the two data sets of GALEX and FIMS, which made observations at similar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Tae-Ho Lim , Kyoung-Wook Min , Kwang-Il Seon

We present spectra of the diffuse FUV (900 -- 1200 \AA) emission from a region near the Orion Nebula: the first high resolution spectra of the diffuse background radiation. These observations were made using serendipitous FUSE observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jayant Murthy , David J. Sahnow , R. C. Henry

We report the discovery of diffuse ultraviolet light around late-type galaxies out to 5-20 kpc from the midplane using Swift and GALEX images. The emission is consistent with the stellar outskirts in the early-type galaxies but not in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Edmund Hodges-Kluck , Joel Bregman

We report on intriguing photometric properties of Galactic stars observed in the GALEX satellite's far-UV and near-UV bandbasses as well as from the SDSS survey and the Kepler Input Catalog. First, the FUV-NUV color distribution of stars in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Myron Smith , Luciana Bianchi , Bernard Shiao

When viewed from above the Earth's atmosphere, the nighttime ultraviolet sky background is profoundly dark - up to 100 times fainter than the equivalent visible background as measured by groundbased telescopes. Because the UV background is…

We report measurements of the Diffuse Galactic Light (DGL) spectrum in the near-infrared, spanning the wavelength range 0.95-1.65 {\mu}m by the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER). Using the low-resolution spectrometer (LRS)…

We present detailed images of diffuse UV intergalactic light (IGL), situated in a 60kpc halo that surrounds the radio galaxy MRC 1138-262 at z=2. We discuss the nature of the IGL and rule out faint cluster galaxies, nebular continuum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. A. Hatch , R. A. Overzier , H. J. A. Röttgering , J. D. Kurk , G. K. Miley

We have studied the diffuse radiation in the surroundings of M42 using photometric data from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) and infrared observations of the AKARI space telescope. The main source of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-21 Gautam Saikia , P. Shalima , Rupjyoti Gogoi

Extinction in ultraviolet is much more significant than in optical or infrared, which can be very informative to precisely measure the extinction and understand the dust properties in the low extinction areas. The high Galactic latitude sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-23 Mingxu Sun , Biwei Jiang , Haibo Yuan , Jun Li

We present Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) far-UV and near-UV mosaic observations covering the entirety of M31 and M33. For both targets, we measure the decline of surface brightness (in FUV and NUV) and changes in FUV--NUV color as a…

In 1992 the Far-Ultraviolet Space Telescope (FAUST) provided measurements of the ultraviolet (140-180nm) diffuse sky background at high, medium, and low Galactic latitudes. A significant fraction of the detected radiation was found to be of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Adolf N. Witt , Brian C. Friedmann , Timothy P. Sasseen

The diffuse far-ultraviolet (FUV) continuum radiation "longward" of Ly-alpha (1216A) is well known to correlate with the dust emission at 100 um. However, it has been claimed that the FUV continuum background "shortward" of Ly-alpha shows…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Kwang-Il Seon

The source-count distribution as a function of their flux, dN/dS, is one of the main quantities characterizing gamma-ray source populations. We employ statistical properties of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) photon counts map to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-28 Hannes-S. Zechlin , Alessandro Cuoco , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo , Andrea Vittino

The meaningful comparison of models of galaxy evolution to observations is critically dependent on the accurate treatment of dust attenuation. To investigate dust absorption and emission in galaxies we have assembled a sample of ~1000…

Because of the continuous variations in mass, metallicity, and opacity, dwarf stars are distributed along the main sequence on optical and near-IR color-magnitude diagrams following a smooth polynomial. In this study of utilizing a catalog…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Wei-Chun Jao , Allison Youngblood

We report the first observations of far-ultraviolet (FUV: 1000 -- 1150 \AA) diffuse radiation from the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using observations from the {\em Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE)}. The strength of FUV diffuse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ananta C. Pradhan , Jayant Murthy , Amit Pathak

We discuss the dust attenuation and the star formation rates in the nearby universe obtained from a comparison of far-infrared (IRAS) and ultraviolet (GALEX) observations. The ratio of the dust to UV flux ratio is used to derive the dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Buat

This study employs stellar parameters from spectroscopic surveys and Zhang et al. based on Gaia XP spectra, along with photometric data from GALEX, UVOT, and Gaia, to obtain extensive ultraviolet color excess information for the relevant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Dongliang Yang , Mingxu Sun , Biwei Jiang , Wenyuan Cui , Ruoyi Zhang , Luyao Shi , Jiachen Wei