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Optical Background from Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

M. Kalinkov
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 72 Lenin Blvd. Sofia 1784, Bulgaria
I. Kuneva
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 72 Lenin Blvd. Sofia 1784, Bulgaria

Abstract

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The optical brightness of the sky due to galaxies is determined up to 15.7 Zwicky magnitude and to B = 15m.

Type
IV. Extragalactic Background Radiation and Cosmology
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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