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A model for the zodiacal emission detected by IRAS is presented. The model allows for power-law variations with helicoentric distance of the grain temperature and density, and includes an outer edge with the same ellipsoidal shape as the density contours. Results of a preliminary least-squares fits suggest that the outer edge is located near the edge of the asteroid belt, that the grains absorb and radiate like blackbodies, and that the density is consistent with Poynting-Robertson drag on grains originating in the asteroid belt.
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Reach, W., Heiles, C. (1988). Separating the solar system and galactic contributions to the diffuse infrared background. In: Lawrence, A. (eds) Comets to Cosmology. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 297. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0118785
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