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