Vol 25, No 12

Diffuse Ultraviolet Sky Toward Nearby Galaxy Clusters

K. M. Minu, N. V. Sujatha and K. F. Fency

Abstract

This study examines diffuse ultraviolet (UV) emissions in the PHOENIX_00 region near galaxy clusters using GALEX deep observations. In the far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV),we detected backgrounds of 125–200 and 225–350 photon units (PU),with scatters of ±16 and ±22 PU,respectively. A moderate FUV-NUV correlation and FUV/NUV ratio below unity indicate FUV-dominated emission and little molecular hydrogen fluorescence or hot-line contributions. Dust influences the FUV background more strongly than the NUV,and UV band emissions correlate more strongly at Galactic latitudes . Infrared (IR) color ratios IR60/IR100 (≈0.34 ± 0.03) indicate homogeneous large-grain temperatures and depletion of small grains and PAHs, while IR60/IR25 below 3 indicates AGN activity in the region. The non-zero offsets of IR-UV plots 89 PU (FUV) and 199 PU (NUV) indicate the region’s baseline illumination and extragalactic radiation. Approximately 11% of the FUV offset and 23% of the NUV offset come from extragalactic background light, while the rest comes from dust-scattered starlight. Finally,our research shows that the interstellar radiation field directly affects the UV background,with the strength inversely proportional to local dust content.


Keywords

ultraviolet: ISM– scattering– (ISM:) dust, extinction– infrared: ISM

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