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Diffuse Ultraviolet Background Radiation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Richard C. Henry
Richard C. Henry*
Affiliation:
Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218-2686

Abstract

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Diffuse ultraviolet background radiation may contain important information concerning the dark matter of the universe. I briefly review new Voyager observations of the diffuse background, which give a very low upper limit on the background radiation shortward of Lyman α, and I review the capabilities for detection and characterization of diffuse radiation that will be provided by a proposed new NASA mission. Low-surface-brightness radiation remains largely an unexplored frontier, particularly in the ultraviolet.

Type
Extra-galactic background light
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 171: The Low Surface Brightness Universe , 1999 , pp. 357 - 364
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999

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