Modelling of dust scattering toward the Coalsack

dc.contributor.author	Shalima, P
dc.contributor.author	Murthy, J
dc.date.accessioned	2008-09-15T14:31:24Z
dc.date.available	2008-09-15T14:31:24Z
dc.date.issued	2004-08
dc.identifier.citation	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 352, No. 4, pp. 1319 - 1322	en
dc.identifier.issn	0035-8711
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/3620
dc.description.abstract	Murthy, Henry & Holberg discovered intense far-ultraviolet (FUV) (λλ912-1600) emission from the direction of the Coalsack molecular cloud 10 years ago. We have used their results in conjunction with a Monte Carlo model for the scattering in the region to show that the scattering is from dust in the foreground of the Coalsack. The albedo of the grains is 0.4 +/- 0.2. This is one of the few determinations of the albedo of dust in the diffuse interstellar medium in the FUV.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Royal Astronomical Society	en
dc.relation.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08022.x	en
dc.subject	Dust	en
dc.subject	Extinction	en
dc.subject	Ultraviolet: ISM	en
dc.title	Modelling of dust scattering toward the Coalsack	en
dc.type	Article	en