Voyager Observations of the Diffuse Far-ultraviolet Radiation Field

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Mar 2012

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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, Volume 199, Issue 1, article id. 11 (2012).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Surveys, Ultraviolet: Ism

Scientific paper

The two Voyager spacecraft have completed their planetary exploration mission and are now probing the outer realms of the heliosphere. The Voyager ultraviolet spectrometers continued to operate well after the Voyager 2 Neptune encounter in 1989. We present a complete database of diffuse radiation observations made by both Voyagers: a total of 1943 spectra (500-1600 Å) scattered throughout the sky. These include observations of dust-scattered starlight, emission lines from the hot interstellar medium, and a number of locations where no diffuse radiation was detected, with the very low upper limit of about 25 photons cm-2 s-1 sr-1 Å-1. Many of these observations were from late in the mission when there was significantly less contribution from interplanetary emission lines and thus less contamination of the interstellar signal.

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