Measurement of the extragalactic background light at 8600 Å using dark cloud shadow and the Ca II-triplet lines

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Table 3.

EBL values from MPFITFUN fitting utilising the three Ca II triplet lines of the scattered ISL: GAIA spectrum used as template in the fit.

Wavelength	Line(s)	FORS spectrum	rms	h(τ)I_EBL ± σ_stat	I_EBL ± σ_stat^a
			[cgs]	[cgs]	[cgs]
8470–8530	line 1	Core-up	0.72	4.69 ± 4.32
		Core-low	0.62	–2.76 ± 3.73
		Core-100″	0.52	2.06 ± 3.08

8515–8590	line 2	Core-up	0.48	0.55 ± 1.29
		Core-low	0.35	1.95 ± 0.92
		Mean of Core-up-low		1.48 ± 0.75	1.61 ± 0.82
		Core-100″	0.26	1.50 ± 0.70	1.63 ± 0.76
		Bright_rim	0.62	–0.31 ± 1.69

8630–8690	line 3	Core-up	0.48	–0.52 ± 1.59
		Core-low	0.90	4.29 ± 2.95
		Mean of Core-up-low		0.56 ± 1.39	0.61 ± 1.51
		Core-100″	0.55	1.26 ± 2.16	1.37 ± 2.35
		Bright_rim	0.83	1.43 ± 2.73

8470–8710	lines 1,2,3	Core-up	0.76	1.93 ± 1.38
		Core-low	0.76	2.84 ± 1.38
		Mean of Core-up-low		2.35 ± 0.97	2.55 ± 1.05
		Core-100″	0.59	2.37 ± 1.06	2.58 ± 1.15
		Bright_rim	0.92	1.00 ± 1.67

Notes.

^(a)

For the attenuation factor the value h(τ) = 0.92 was adopted.

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