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Models of Reflection Nebulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

T. P. Roark  and
J. Mayo Greenberg
T. P. Roark
Affiliation:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
J. Mayo Greenberg
Affiliation:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

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A Feasibility Study For an Observational Program was made to investigate models of reflection nebulae. Specifically, for a relatively simple model of an interstellar dust cloud with a source of illumination nearby, predictions of the color of the nebula, relative to the source color, at points along any radial direction from the source are sought. Furthermore, from these color differences, the possibility is studied of discriminating between the effects produced by the cloud-source-observer geometry and those due to the assumed optical properties of the scattering particles. If such discrimination is feasible, the types of observations that would be most useful in separating the effects must be known to the investigator.

Plane-parallel slab models similar to those of reference 1 in which the scattering particles are distributed isotropically and homogeneously were used. The scattering properties of the particles were assumed to be those obtained by using the Mie theory of electromagnetic scattering.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 7: Proper Motions , August 1965 , pp. 111 - 121
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer Academic Publishers 1965

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