Optical polarimetry of the Galilean satellites, Iapetus, and 64 Angelina near opposition

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Sep 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000kfnts...3..227r&link_type=abstract

Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel, Suppl, no. 3, p. 227-230

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Detailed measurements of polarization of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter, Saturn's satellite Iapetus and the asteroid 64 Angelina in the UBVRI filters around opposition, which were obtained at the Kharkiv, Crimean, and Pik Terskol Observatories in 1998--1999, are presented. Undoubtedly, there is a sharp peak of negative polarization centered at a very small phase angle which is superimposed on the negative branch of the regular phase angle dependence of polarization. Detection of the photometric opposition spike and polarization opposition peak for the researched objects suggests that at least partially their surfaces are covered with an optically thick layer composed of nonabsorbing (or weakly absorbing) submicrometer--sized grains.

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