Studying the diffuse ultraviolet background radiation with tomography

Center for Astrophysical Sciences, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Corresponding author: henry@jhu.edu

Received: 24 March 2003
Accepted: 12 August 2003

Abstract

Observation of faint diffuse ultraviolet background radiation is a delicate undertaking, given the brightness of the ultraviolet stars against which discrimination is essential. I demonstrate that the technique of tomography is unsuited to this particular task.