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The Opacity of Spiral Galaxies from Counts of Distant Background Galaxies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2016
Abstract
We have applied the “Synthetic Field Method” on a sample of 20 nearby galaxies in order to determine the opacity of their disks. We present preliminary results on the radial dependence of cold dust absorption for 3 examples. the spirals NGC 4535 and NGC 4725 show significant absorption at a half-light radius. UGC 2302, a LSB galaxy, shows much less opacity.
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- Part 9: Disks
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 220: Dark Matter in Galaxies , 2004 , pp. 323 - 324
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004
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