Photometric properties of the surface of Io and their influence on line formation in the atmosphere

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Sep 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976icar...29...57y&link_type=abstract

Icarus, vol. 29, Sept. 1976, p. 57-67.

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Optics

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Astronomical Photometry, Io, Jupiter Atmosphere, Light Scattering, Line Spectra, Surface Properties, Atmospheric Optics, Backscattering, Specular Reflection

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The paper presents a quantitative theory of line formation in an atmosphere above a surface with backscattering properties. Sufficiently high spatial and spectral resolution spectra of resonance lines in Io region A can yield data on the surface scattering properties as well as the number density of scattering molecules. Macroscopically homogeneous models of scattering from the surface of Io are discussed, and it is concluded that multiple reflection from crystal facets is the most likely cause for the observed geometric albedo and phase variation.

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