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Cs. Kiss
THE SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURE OF FAR-INFRARED AND VISIBLE SCATTERED LIGHT IN INTERSTELLAR CIRRUS CLOUDS (Poster)

THE SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURE OF FAR-INFRARED AND VISIBLE SCATTERED LIGHT IN INTERSTELLAR CIRRUS CLOUDS


Cs. Kiss(1)
(1)Konkoly Observatory, PO Box 67, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary


The small-scale structure of the interstellar cirrus is important since (1) it contains information about the physical processes forming the structure itself and (2) it is a foreground for the cosmic infrared background, and should be separable from that. The investigation of the small-scale structure in the (far-)infrared is difficult, due to the limited available spatial resolution. However, is some well-selected cirrus clouds the visible scattered light and the far-inrared emission is strongly correlated, making it possible to study the structure at a resolution higher than infrared instruments can reach. Here we demonstrate the usability of this method for a sample of northern cirrus clouds and derive parameters describing the small-scale structure.


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LESIA, Observatoire de Paris
2006-03-16