{
  "id": "astro-ph/9508093",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1995-08-20T11:18:41.000Z",
  "updated": "1995-08-20T11:18:41.000Z",
  "title": "Limits on Dust in Rich Clusters of Galaxies from the Color of Background Quasars",
  "authors": [
    "Dan Maoz"
  ],
  "comment": "Submitted to ApJ Letters. 14 pages incl. 2 figures, uuencoded, compressed postscript. Also available by anonymous ftp to ftp://wise3.tau.ac.il/pub/dani/dust.ps.Z",
  "doi": "10.1086/309833",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "I measure the V-I color distribution of two samples of radio-selected quasars. Quasars from one sample are projected on the sky within 1 degree of a rich foreground Abell cluster of galaxies, while quasars from the other sample are more than 3 degrees from any such cluster . There is no significant difference between the color distributions of the two samples. The 90\\% upper limit on the relative reddening between the two samples is E(B-V)=0.05 mag. This result limits the allowed quantity of smoothly distributed dust in rich clusters, and contradicts previous indications for the existence of such a component.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1995-08-20T11:18:41.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "rich clusters",
      "background quasars",
      "rich foreground abell cluster",
      "v-i color distribution",
      "significant difference"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 14,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 412813
    }
  }
}