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Feature #470
closedGalatic absortion
Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Start date:
2012-12-21
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Description
Our galaxy absorption could significantly decrease the signal of a distant source depending mostly on the galactic latitude.
Generally the transmission of our galaxy is define as function of wavelength as
trans_gal = 10**(-0.4*A(lambda, alpha,delta))
where A is the absorption and depend on the wavelength and the source coordinate on the sky.
See Schlegel 1998, Jouvel 2011 and Zoubian in prep for more details.
A very convenient way to implement that is to ask to the user to provide the spectra A(lambda) or directly trans_gal(lambda) for a given (alpha,delta).
Then you have just apply the transmission on the signal.
Note that the sky background like zodiacal light is not affect by this absorption.
Updated by Christian Surace almost 3 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
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