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Light from Dark Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

Joachim A. Stüwe
Joachim A. Stüwe*
Affiliation:
Astronomisches Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Postfach 10 21 48 D-4630 Bochum 1 FRG

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The purpose of the present investigation was to find out how far the existing photographic sky surveys can be used to derive physical parameters of dark clouds, without the need of new observations. In a recent paper a method of distance determination and extinction mapping of dark clouds by automated star counts on microphotometric raster scans of the ESO/SRC Southern Sky Survey (Stüwe, 1989, hereafter Paper I) is presented. The present paper does a second step, which is based on the fact that dark clouds are marked by an intrinsic surface brightness (Barnard, 1927).

Type
III. Diffuse Galactic Radiation from Dust and Gas: Observations and Models
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 139: The Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation , 1990 , pp. 199 - 202
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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