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How transparent are spiral galaxies?: An analysis from a near-infrared perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

R. F. Peletier  and
S. P. Willner
R. F. Peletier
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60, Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
S. P. Willner
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 60, Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

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Until recently is was commonly thought that most spiral galaxies were transparent or contained only modest amounts of absorbing dust, making them optically thin in the B-band (Holmberg 1958). However Disney et al. (1989) showed that there was very little evidence for this. Using a very large optical database Valentijn (1990) showed that surface brightness in B is almost independent of inclination, implying that spiral galaxies in general are optically thick in B.

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Poster Papers
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 149: The Stellar populations of Galaxies , 1992 , pp. 469
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