Automating the Synthetic Field Method:Application to Sextans A

2); (2) Kapteyn Institute Groningen); Benne W. Holwerda (1; Pieter C. van der Kruit (2) ((1) Space Telescope Science Institute; Ronald J. Allen (1)

arxiv: astro-ph/0201484 · v1 · submitted 2002-01-29 · 🌌 astro-ph

Automating the Synthetic Field Method:Application to Sextans A

Benne W. Holwerda (1 , 2) , Ronald J. Allen (1) , Pieter C. van der Kruit (2) ((1) Space Telescope Science Institute , (2) Kapteyn Institute Groningen) This is my paper

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We have automated the ``Synthetic Field Method'' developed by Gonzalez et al.(1998) and used it to measure the opacity of the ISM in the Local Group dwarf galaxy Sextans A by using the changes in counts of background galaxies seen through the foreground system. The Sextans A results are consistent with the observational relation found by Cuillandre et al. (2001) between dust opacity and HI column density in the outer parts of M31.

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