Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-12-17
New Astronomy, 2002, 7/4, 185
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 2 Figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/S1384-1076(02)00104-5
In this paper I review a series of observations which do not agree with the standard interpretation of the extinction curve. The consequence is that light we receive from a reddened star must be contaminated by starlight scattered at very small angular distances from the star. The true extinction curve is a straight line from the near infrared to the far-UV. If so, all interstellar grains models must be questionned. Another conclusion concerns the average properties of interstellar grains which seem much more uniform than previously thought.
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