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Observations of the Diffuse Ultraviolet Background from the UVX Experiment On Space Shuttle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

Richard C. Henry
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Paul D. Feldman
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Jayant Murthy
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics Goddard Space Flight Center MD 20771, USA

Abstract

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The UVX experiment has resulted in confirmation that the diffuse ultraviolet background is low in intensity everywhere and that it is fairly uniform in intensity, both spatially and spectrally. There is no clear evidence that any significant portion of the moderate galactic latitude diffuse cosmic background originates in galactic plane starlight scattering from interstellar dust.

Type
III. Diffuse Galactic Radiation from Dust and Gas: Observations and Models
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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