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Dust scattering from the Taurus Molecular Cloud

Publication Type : Journal Article

Publisher : Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Source : Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 466, no. 3, pp. 3199–3205, 2017

Url : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311736607_Dust_Scattering_from_the_Taurus_Molecular_Cloud

Campus : Amritapuri

School : School of Arts and Sciences, School of Physical Sciences

Department : Physics

Year : 2017

Abstract : We present an analysis of the diffuse ultraviolet emission near the Taurus Molecular Cloud based on observations made by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer. We used a Monte Carlo dust scattering model to show that about half of the scattered flux originates in the molecular cloud with 25 per cent arising in the foreground and 25 per cent behind the cloud. The best-fitting albedo of the dust grains is 0.3, but the geometry is such that we could not constrain the phase function asymmetry factor (g).

Cite this Research Publication : Sathya Narayan, Jayant Murthy, and Narayanankutty Karuppath, “Dust scattering from the Taurus Molecular Cloud”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 466, no. 3, pp. 3199–3205, 2017

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