Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-t5tsf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-08T00:30:18.122Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Fluctuations of the Diffuse Galactic Background

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

K. Mattila
K. Mattila*
Affiliation:
Helsinki University Observatory Tähtitorninmäki SF-00130 Helsinki, Finland

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

An analysis of fluctuations in the brightness of the Milky Way using the concept that interstellar matter occurs in the form of discrete clouds was first applied by Ambarzumian (1940, 1944). This theory was formulated in a general way and discussed in great detail in a series of papers by Chandrasekhar and Münch (1950a, 1950b, 1951, 1952), by Münch and Chandrasekhar (1952), and by Limber (1953). More recently Peters (1970) presented an analysis of this kind based on extensive photographic observational material. Although the influence of clumpiness of the dust distribution on the mean integrated starlight was thoroughly discussed in these papers, it has not been properly included in most of the photometric models of the Galaxy. Only the models of Caplan and Grec (1979) and Mattila (1980a, 1980b) incorporate these effects.

Type
II. Galactic Background Starlight from UV to IR: Observations and Models
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 139: The Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation , 1990 , pp. 99
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

References

REFERENCES

Ambarzumian, V.A. 1940, Bull. Abastumani Astrophys. Obs., 4, 17.Google Scholar
Ambarzumian, V.A. 1944, Compt. Rend. (Doklady) Acad. Sci. USSR, 14, 223.Google Scholar
Caplan, J., Grec, G. 1979, Astron. Astrophys., 78, 335.Google Scholar
Chandrasekhar, S., Münch, G. 1950a, Astrophys. J., 112, 380.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chandrasekhar, S., Münch, G. 1950b, Astrophys. J., 112, 393.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chandrasekhar, S., Münch, G. 1951, Astrophys. J., 114, 110.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chandrasekhar, S., Münch, G. 1952, Astrophys. J., 115, 103.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jakobsen, P., Kahn, S.M. 1986, Astrophys. J., 309, 682.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Limber, D.N. 1953, Astrophys. J., 117, 145.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mattila, K. 1971, Astron. Astrophys., 15, 292.Google Scholar
Mattila, K. 1980a, Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser., 39, 53.Google Scholar
Mattila, K. 1980b, Astron. Astrophys., 82, 373.Google Scholar
Mattila, K., Scheffler, H. 1978, Astron. Astrophys., 66, 211.Google Scholar
Münch, G., Chandrasekhar, S. 1952, Astrophys. J., 115, 94.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Peters, G. 1970, Astron. Astrophys., 4, 134.Google Scholar