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Interstellar Polarization in the Small Magellanic Cloud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

C. Rodrigues ,
A.M. Magalhãtes ,
G. Coyne  and
V. Piirola
C. Rodrigues
Affiliation:
Inst. Astron. e Geof., Univ. São Paulo - BRAZIL
A.M. Magalhãtes
Affiliation:
Inst. Astron. e Geof., Univ. São Paulo - BRAZIL Space Astronomy Lab., Univ. Wisconsin - USA
G. Coyne
Affiliation:
Vatican Obs. Research Group, Univ. Arizona - USA
V. Piirola
Affiliation:
Obs. and Astrophysics Lab., Univ. Helsinki - FINLAND

Abstract

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Data of our on-going program on the interstellar polarization in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) seem to show a correlation between the UV extinction and the parameters of the Serkowski law which describe the polarization. Fits of popular interstellar dust models to the polarization data are not always satisfactory, being better for stars with small wavelength of maximum polarization, λmax.

Type
External Galaxies
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 150: Astrochemistry of Cosmic Phenomena , 1992 , pp. 109 - 110
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1992 

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