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DustPedia Far-Infrared Montage

Chris Clark
April 19, 2016

DustPedia Far-Infrared Montage

Far-infrared (Herschel-SPIRE) highlight poster created to advertise the DustPedia dataset. First presented at Athens meeting, 2016.

Chris Clark

April 19, 2016
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  1. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh

    Framework Pro- gramme for research, technological develop- ment and demonstration under grant agree- ment no. 606874. These are all 844 galaxies within 140 million light-years of us (that have angular sizes over 1/60 th a de- gree) that were observed by the Herschel Space Observatory’s SPIRE camera. These images show how these galaxies appear at a wavelength of 250 µm (2000 times longer than what our eyes see). At this wavelength, we observe the thermal glow of the cosmic dust that floats between stars, and cocoons star-formation. In galaxies with no dust, we only see the even more distant galaxies behind.