An attempt to detect scattering from tenuous diffuse interstellar material in an elliptical galaxy

Details An attempt to detect scattering from tenuous diffuse interstellar material in an elliptical galaxy An attempt to detect scattering from tenuous diffuse interstellar material in an elliptical galaxy

Mar 1991

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Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 243, no. 1, March 1991, p. 103-108.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Cosmic Dust, Elliptical Galaxies, Interstellar Matter, Linear Polarization, Rayleigh Scattering, Galactic Nuclei, Interstellar Magnetic Fields, Light Scattering, Polarized Light

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An attempt has been made to observe the phenomenon described by Jura (1978), who predicted that if a sufficient amount of tenuous interstellar material would be presented in an elliptical galaxy, it could be detected by the linear polarization associated with Rayleigh scattering. An admittedly too crude experiment gives an upper limit of about 0.0005 for the degree of the corresponding polarization in red light in NGC 3377. It appears that there is no large scale pattern of polarization at a level of 0.001 in this galaxy.

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