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Fitting Zodiacal Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

Edward L. Wright*
Affiliation:
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ 08540 and UCLA Astronomy, PO Box 951562, Los Angeles CA 90095-1562, USA

Abstract

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Models of the zodiacal light are necessary to convert measured data taken from low Earth orbit into the radiation field outside the Solar System. The uncertainty in these models dominates the overall uncertainty in determining the extragalactic background light for wavelengths λ < 100 μm.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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