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Rocket Experiment to Search for the Near-Infrared Extragalactic Background Light

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

T. Matsumoto
Affiliation:
Department of Astrophysics, Nagoya University Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464 Japan
M. Akiba
Affiliation:
Department of Astrophysics, Nagoya University Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464 Japan
H. Murakami
Affiliation:
Department of Astrophysics, Nagoya University Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464 Japan

Abstract

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A rocket experiment was carried out to search for the extra-galactic background light at 1–5 μm. After subtracting the foreground radiation, there still remains an appreciable amount of isotropic diffuse radiation with a complex spectral feature which is possibly attributed to extragalactic origin.

Type
Chapter I: The Microwave Background Radiation
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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