Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992jhu..rept.....h&link_type=abstract
Progress Report Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Cosmic Dust, Interstellar Gas, Reflection Nebulae, Scale Height, Stellar Luminosity, Gas Density, Infrared Astronomy Satellite, Radii
Scientific paper
More than 700 luminous stars in the infrared astronomical satellite (IRAS) Skyflux plates were examined for the presence of dust heated by a nearby star. This dust may be distinguished from the ubiquitous cool cirrus by its higher temperature and thus enhanced 60 micron emission. More than 120 dust clouds were found around only 106 of the stars with a volume filling factor of 0.006 and an intercloud separation of 46 pc. A region of dust smoothly distributed through the volume of space heated by the star could not be found and hence an upper limit of 0.05 cm-3 is placed on the equivalent gas density in the intercloud regions. The clouds have an average density of 0.22 cm-3 and a radius of 1.9 pc, albeit with wide variations in their properties. Two different scale heights of 140 and 540 pc were found. This was interpreted as evidence for different distributions of dust in and out of the galactic disk.
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