Published November 1989 | Version v1
Journal article

Optical characteristics of Galactic 100 micron cirrus

  • 1. AT ampersand T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (USA)
  • 2. Princeton Univ. Observatory, NJ (USA)

Description

Far-IR morphology-correlated structure has been noted in the visible range in the present multicolor images of isolated, medium-high latitude Galactic 'cirrus' clouds; the scale of the structure ranges from 30 arcsec to more than 10 arcmin. The novel imaging technique used a mosaic of contiguous CCD frames. The red B(J)-R color of the 'cirrus' is not due to H-alpha emission. Visible/100-micron brightness ratios are used to investigate the nature of a faint, extended optical component seen in a deep CCD survey of high-redshift galaxies which is known to be unrelated to galactic dust. 49 refs

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Journal Title
Astrophysical Journal
Journal Volume
346
Series
Astrophys. J.
Journal Page Range
773-793
ISSN
0004-637X
CODEN
ASJOA