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Observations of the Extragalactic Background Light

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

K. Mattila
K. Mattila*
Affiliation:
Helsinki University Observatory Tähtitorninmäki SF-00130 Helsinki, Finland

Abstract

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We present a review of the presently available observations of the extragalactic background light (EBL) obtained by means of night sky photometry. The EBL is a quantity of great cosmological importance; areas which are directly affected include galaxy formation and evolution, the appropriateness of different cosmological models, and the local luminosity density due to galaxies and other matter in intergalactic space. The basic problem in measuring the EBL is its separation from other, much stronger components of the light of the night sky. None of the different observational techniques have succeeded in providing a generally accepted measurement of the EBL. After a review of available methods, we present new results from an experiment by Mattila and Schnur (1989) utilizing the dark cloud technique in the area of L1642, a high-latitude dark nebula in the galactic anticentre direction.

Type
IV. Extragalactic Background Radiation and Cosmology
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 139: The Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation , 1990 , pp. 257 - 268
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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