Mapping the dust column density in dark clouds by using NIR scattered light: Case of the lupus 3 dark cloud

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 731-737

  Nakajima, Yasushi ^a   Kandori, Ryo ^a   Tamura, Motohide ^a   Nagata, Tetsuya ^b   Sato, Shuji ^c   Sugitani, Koji ^d  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infrared: ISM; ISM: clouds; ISM: dust, extinction; Methods: data analysis

Indexed keywords

COLOR; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT SCATTERING; LUMINANCE; MAPPING; STARS;

COLUMN DENSITY; DUST EXTINCTIONS; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; INFRARED: ISM; ISM : CLOUDS; ISM: DUST, EXTINCTION; ISM:DUST; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; NEAR-INFRARED; SURFACE BRIGHTNESS;

DUST;

EID: 52049124600     PISSN: 00046264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pasj/60.4.731     Document Type: Article

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