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We have modelled diffuse far-ultraviolet spectrum observed by FUSE near M42 as scattering of starlight from the Trapezium stars by dust in front of the nebula. The dust grains are known to be anomalous in Orion with Rv = 5.5 and these are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Shalima , N. V. Sujatha , Jayant Murthy , Richard Conn Henry , David J. Sahnow

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

Recent availability of high quality infrared (IR) data for diffuse regions in the Galaxy and external galaxies have added to our understanding of interstellar dust. A comparison of ultraviolet (UV) and IR observations may be used to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-02 Gautam Saikia , P. Shalima , Rupjyoti Gogoi , Amit Pathak

Dust scattering is the main source of diffuse emission in the far-ultraviolet (FUV). For several locations in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite has observed diffuse radiation in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-05 Gautam Saikia , P. Shalima , Rupjyoti Gogoi , Amit Pathak

We have modeled the diffuse background at the Galactic Poles in the far-ultraviolet (FUV: 1536 \AA) and the near-ultraviolet (NUV: 2316 \AA). The background is well-fit using a single-scattering dust model with an offset representing the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-06 Jayant Murthy , Richard C. Henry , James Overduin

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-15 Sathyanarayan , Jayant Murthy , K. Narayanankutty

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

We present the results of dust scattering simulations carried out for the Orion Eridanus Superbubble region by comparing them with observations made in the far-ultraviolet. The albedo and the phase function asymmetry factor (g-factor) of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Young-Soo Jo , Kyoung-Wook Min , Tae-Ho Lim , Kwang-Il Seon

We have used data from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer to study the different components of the diffuse ultraviolet background in the region between the Galactic latitudes 70-80 degree. We find an offset at zero dust column density (E(B - V)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-12 M. S. Akshaya , Jayant Murthy , S. Ravichandran , R. C. Henry , James Overduin

Diffuse far-ultraviolet stellar emission scattered by dust grains has been observed in a region near the Orion Nebula. In addition to the scattered stellar continuum, emission and absorption features produced by molecular hydrogen have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. France , S. R. McCandliss

I explore models of the dust-scattered component of the Cosmic Ultraviolet Background (CUVB) at the North Galactic Pole (NGP) in order to develop a framework for calculating the dust-scattered light as a function of the optical depths. As…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jayant Murthy

Photometry of the nebulae LDN1780, LDN1642 and LBN406 is used to derive scattering properties of dust and to investigate the presence of UV fluorescence emission by molecular hydrogen and the extended red emission (ERE). We used…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 K. Mattila , M. Haas , L. K. Haikala , Y-S. Jo , K. Lehtinen , Ch. Leinert , P. Vaeisaenen

Large scale far-infrared (FIR) observations of the Orion complex at 205 and 138 micron are presented with an aim of studying the distribution of cold (< 25 K) dust. The maps in these FIR bands extend over approximately 3600 sq. arcmin and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Mookerjea , S. K. Ghosh , T. N. Rengarajan , S. N. Tandon , R. P. Verma

We have studied small scale (2 arcmin) spatial variation of the diffuse UV radiation using a set of 11 GALEX deep observations in the constellation of Draco. We find a good correlation between the observed UV background and the IR 100…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 N. V. Sujatha , Jayant Murthy , Rahul Suresh , Richard Conn Henry , Luciana Bianchi

We have derived the albedo ($a$) and phase function asymmetry factor ($g$) of interstellar dust grains at 1100 \AA ~ using archival {\it Voyager} observations of diffuse radiation in Ophiuchus. We have found that the grains are highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. V. Sujatha , P. Shalima , Jayant Murthy , Richard Conn Henry

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…

CONTEXT: The Virgo direction has been observed at many wavelengths in the recent years, in particular in the ultraviolet with GALEX. The far ultraviolet (FUV) diffuse light detected by GALEX bears interesting information on the large scale…

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 have derived the dust emissivity in the Far-Infrared (FIR) using data available in the literature. We use two wavelength dependences derived from spectra of Galactic FIR emission (Reach et al. 1995). A value for the emissivity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simone Bianchi , Jonathan I. Davies , Paul B. Alton

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
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