2011

Spectrophotometric measurement of the Extragalacic Background Light

Mattila, Kalevi, Lehtinen, Kimmo, Vaisanen, Petri et al.

Understand

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) at UV, optical and NIR wavelengths consists of the integrated light of all unresolved galaxies along the line of sight plus any contributions by intergalactic matter including hypothetical decaying relic particles.

  • The measurement of the EBL has turned out to be a tedious problem.
  • This is because of the foreground components of the night sky brightness, much larger than the EBL itself: the Zodiacal Light (ZL), Integrated Starlight (ISL), Diffuse Galactic Light (DGL) and, for ground-based observations, the Airglow (AGL) and the tropospheric scattered light.
  • We have been developing a method for the EBL measurement which utilises the screening effect of a dark nebula on the EBL.

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