Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-10-25
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
Scientific paper
10.1016/S1384-1076(02)00098-2
For directions of sufficcient reddening (E(B-V) >~ 0.25), there is a simple relation between the slope of the extinction curve in the far-UV and E(B-V). Regardless of direction, the far-UV extinction curve is proportional to 1/lambda^n exp(-2e(B-V)/lambda) (lambda in micron, n = 4), in accordance with the idea that reddened stars spectra are contaminated by scattered light (Zagury, 2001b). This relation is not compatible with the standard theory of extinction which states that far-UV and visible extinctions are due to different classes of grains. In the standard theory model the two (far-UV and visible) extinctions vary thus independently according to the proportion of each type of grains. In preceding papers I have shown that the standard theory cannot explain UV observations of nebulae, and is contradicted by the UV spectra of stars with very low reddening: for how long shall the standard theory be considered as the interpretation of the extinction curve?
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