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The OSER project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2006

M. Moniez*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, IN2P3-CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, BP. 34, 91898 Orsay Cedex, France
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Abstract

The OSER project (Optical Scintillation by Extraterrestrial Refractors)is proposed to search for scintillation Of extragalactic sourcesthrough the galactic – disk or halo – transparent H2 clouds,the last unknown baryonic structures.This project should allow one to detect column densitystochastic variations in cool Galactic molecular clouds of order of~ 3×10-5 g/cm2 per ~ 10 000 km transverse distance.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2006

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