Coherent Backscattering by Random Particulate Media in the Solar System

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Jan 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002assl..278...47m&link_type=abstract

Solar System Remote Sensing, p. 47

Computer Science

Asteroids, Photometry, Linear Polarization, Polarimetry, Sun

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Photometric observations for large numbers of asteroids indicate an opposition effect, a nonlinear increase of brightness at small solar phase angles, the angle between the Sun and the observer as seen from the asteroid. Vast sets of asteroid polarimetric observations show negative polarization, a peculiar degree of linear polarization (I(perpendicular) - I(parallel))/(I(perpendicular) + I(parallel)) for unpolarized incident sunlight: at small phase angles, the brightness component I(parallel) with the electric vector parallel to the scattering plane defined by the Sun, the asteroid, and the observer predominates over the perpendicular component I(perpendicular).

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