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A study of 2175 Å absorption feature with TAUVEX: An Indo-Israeli UV mission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2008

C. Muthumariappan ,
G. Maheswar ,
C. Eswaraiah  and
A. K. Pandey
C. Muthumariappan
Affiliation:
Vainu Bappu Observatory, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, KavalurIndia email: muthu@iiap.res.in
G. Maheswar
Affiliation:
Korea Astronomy & Space Science Institute, Daejeon, R. O.Korea email: maheswar@kasi.re.kr ARIES, Nainital, India email: eswarbramha@aries.ernet.in, pandey@aries.ernet.in
C. Eswaraiah
Affiliation:
ARIES, Nainital, India email: eswarbramha@aries.ernet.in, pandey@aries.ernet.in
A. K. Pandey
Affiliation:
ARIES, Nainital, India email: eswarbramha@aries.ernet.in, pandey@aries.ernet.in
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Abstract

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TAUVEX is an Indo-Israeli collaborative mission to make photometric observations in the UV region. Using the narrowband filters positioned near 2175 Å feature, we plan to construct the UV bump in the extinction curve towards B type stars brighter than mv = 14. Archival data of TD1, Galex missions are used for stars brighter than mv = 10. We sample the distance to obtain the extintion at different location of the local ISM upto 2 kpc. Using a dust model having silicate, graphite and PAH as components, the extinction curve at different location of the Galaxy is fitted to constrain the dust characteristics.

Keywords

(ISM:) dustextinction
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S251: Organic Matter in Space , February 2008 , pp. 73 - 74
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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