Modelling of dust scattering toward the Coalsack

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Title:	Modelling of dust scattering toward the Coalsack
Authors:	Shalima, P Murthy, J
Keywords:	Dust Extinction Ultraviolet: ISM
Issue Date:	Aug-2004
Publisher:	Royal Astronomical Society
Citation:	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 352, No. 4, pp. 1319 - 1322
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.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/3620
ISSN:	0035-8711
Appears in Collections:	IIAP Publications

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