The effect of line-of-sight temperature variation and noise on dust continuum observations

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 696, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 2234-2251

  Shetty, Rahul ^a,b   Kauffmann, Jens ^a,b   Schnee, Scott ^c   Goodman, Alyssa A ^a,b   Ercolano, Barbara ^a,d  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dust, extinction; infrared: ISM; ISM: clouds; methods: miscellaneous; stars: formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 73349128000     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/696/2/2234     Document Type: Article

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