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| Name: Jayant Murthy Affiliation: Indian Institute of Astrophysics Conference ID: ASI2016_527 Title : Modeling the diffuse ultraviolet background Authors and Co-Authors : None Abstract Type : Oral Abstract Category : Stars, The Milky Way Galaxy and its neighbours Abstract : Although an important part of our Galaxy, interstellar dust is difficult to characterize. Historically, most of our information about dust has come from observations of extinction curves against background stars but these are limited to those directions where there are suitable stars. Infrared observations of the thermal emission from dust heated by the interstellar radiation field fills the sky and has yielded considerable information about the properties and the distribution of the dust. Ultraviolet observations of the scattered light from the dust have been difficult and sparse until the launch of the GALEX mission. I will discuss my extraction of this diffuse light from the GALEX data and what it tells us about the properties of interstellar dust. My primary focus will be on the modeling I am now doing and on its successes and deficiencies. |