2 papers
astro-ph2003
The Opacity of Spiral Galaxies from Counts of Distant Background Galaxies
B. W. Holwerda, R. A. Gonzalez, R. J. Allen +1
We have applied the "Synthetic Field Method" on a sample of ~20 nearby galaxies in order to determine the opacity of their disks. We present preliminary results on the radial depen…
astro-ph2002
Automating the Synthetic Field Method:Application to Sextans A
Benne W. Holwerda, Ronald J. Allen, Pieter C. van der Kruit
We have automated the ``Synthetic Field Method'' developed by Gonzalez et al.(1998) and used it to measure the opacity of the ISM in the Local Group dwarf galaxy Sextans A by using…