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 deg, with its line of ascending nodes at 70 deg ecliptic longitude. The data is well fit by a dust density distribution presently described in cloud symmetry plane coordinates, where the dust has a gray emissivity and an equilibrium temperature at 1 AU of 280 K.


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    Title :

    IRAS observations of the zodiacal background


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    Publication date :

    1986-01-01



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    Miscellaneous


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    English


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