Abstract The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) sky survey measurements are used to constrain a model for the interplanetary dust emission. Efforts to date, although hampered somewhat by calibration uncertainties, indicate that the cloud is inclined to the ecliptic by approximately 1.7° with its line of ascending nodes at 70° ecliptic longitude. The data is well fit by a dust density distribution described in cloud symmetry plane coordinates by p = po (ro/r)1.1 exp [−4.2 (z/r)1.2], where the dust has a gray emissivity and an equilibrium temperature at 1 AU of 280 K.
IRAS observations of the zodiacal background
Advances in Space Research ; 6 , 7 ; 83-86
1987-01-01
4 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
IRAS observations of the zodiacal background
NTRS | 1986
|Elsevier | 1987
|NTRS | 1986
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