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| List of Figures | |
| Abbreviations and Acronyms | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Zodiacal Light - the phenomenon | p. 1 |
| Review of observations of the ZL prior to 1970 | p. 2 |
| Review of the period of my observations of the ZL, 1970-1974 | p. 20 |
| Review of recent developments in ZL research, 1974-2007 | p. 21 |
| Preparations and experimental details 1971-1974 | p. 41 |
| Choice of wavelength for the observations | p. 41 |
| Choice of resolving power | p. 41 |
| The site | p. 44 |
| The ZL building | p. 45 |
| Instrumental details | p. 47 |
| New features of the instrument | p. 52 |
| Optimisation of the system | p. 72 |
| How the observations were made | p. 73 |
| Reduction of the Data | p. 77 |
| Intensity calibration | p. 77 |
| Wavelength calibration | p. 81 |
| Treatment of a single scan | p. 86 |
| Daylight correction | p. 87 |
| MgI emission | p. 87 |
| Averaging | p. 95 |
| Polynomial fits | p. 95 |
| Gaussian Curve Fitting (Program GAUSSN) | p. 101 |
| Interpretation of results in terms of physical models | p. 105 |
| Gallery of spectra | p. 105 |
| General comments on the data | p. 116 |
| Information obtainable from the Gaussian fits | p. 116 |
| Accuracy of the fits | p. 119 |
| Evidence from line-widths and depths | p. 120 |
| Analysis of the wavelength versus elongation data | p. 121 |
| Forces experienced by particles in the Zodiacal Cloud | p. 122 |
| Rotating dust cloud models | p. 123 |
| Other considerations in rotating models | p. 124 |
| Geocentric Dust Cloud (GDC) model | p. 127 |
| A uniform dust flow model | p. 128 |
| Estimation of the effect of a contribution to the Zodiacal Light from sources distant from the Solar System | p. 136 |
| Further analysis of the data by comparison with new radial velocity data and model theory available in 2007 | p. 140 |
| Binning of the HMR data | p. 144 |
| Variations with time | p. 146 |
| Summary of implications of the 1970-4 work, and pointers for the future | p. 147 |
| Current developments and future plans | p. 149 |
| Current Zodiacal Light research | p. 149 |
| Objectives of our proposed new work in Zodiacal Light | p. 151 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 153 |
| Program ZLPLT | p. 161 |
| Programs LSQFIT, GAUSSN | p. 165 |
| Programs POLYPT, FLEXPT, MINIPT, MINIPS, GAUSPT | p. 175 |
| Programs STREAM, CONVL | p. 179 |
| Hicks, May and Reay NATURE paper, 1972 | p. 183 |
| Hicks, May and Reay MNRAS paper, 1974 | p. 189 |
| The Airy Summation | p. 201 |
| References | p. 205 |
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