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Fig. 7
Optical depth in the V band, τV, derived from the RT calculations for M 51. The τV map has a grainy structure in the inter-arm regions due to Poisson noise, driven by the relatively few number of V band photons that are absorbed and/or scattered in the inter-arm regions.
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