Statistical properties of galactic starlight polarization

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 564, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 762-772

  Fosalba, Pablo ^a,b   Lazarian, Alex ^c   Prunet, Simon ^d   Tauber, Jan A ^b  

^a INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^b Noordwijk AG   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dust, extinction; Galaxies: structure; Galaxy: stellar content; ISM: magnetic fields; Methods: statistical; Polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037507790     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/324297     Document Type: Article

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