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Zodiacal Light, Gegenschein and Sky Background

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

A. Maucherat ,
A. Llebaria  and
J.C. Gonin
A. Maucherat
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d’Astronomie Spatiale Marseille
A. Llebaria
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d’Astronomie Spatiale Marseille
J.C. Gonin
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d’Astronomie Spatiale Marseille

Abstract

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Results from photometers on board the D2B satellite (1975) for the whole sky in ultraviolet and blue light, are combined to generate a very well defined empirical representation of the zodiacal light and Gegenschein. The sky background is then obtained by subtraction of this model from the data.

Type
I. Zodiacal Light and F-Corona: Observations
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 85: Properties and Interactions of Interplanetary Dust , 1985 , pp. 27 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985

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