Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
Dec 1984
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984apopt..23.4422h&link_type=abstract
Applied Optics (ISSN 0003-6935), vol. 23, Dec. 1, 1984, p. 4422-4426.
Physics
Optics
6
Brillouin Effect, Inelastic Scattering, Planetary Atmospheres, Polarized Radiation, Rayleigh Scattering, Sky Brightness, Aerosols, Fluorescence, Line Spectra, Monte Carlo Method
Scientific paper
The inelastic part of Rayleigh scattering, which, as previously shown, can account for the partially filled line profiles of the blue sky observed at high spectral resolution, also explains the variation of polarization across a line profile. At lower spectral resolution, only the rotational part of the molecular scattering is needed to account for the polarization phenomena; translational (Brillouin) shifts can be neglected. Aerosol scattering, like the ground reflection, reduces the polarizations observed in the zenith sky by diluting the molecular (Rayleigh) component. Although the theory agrees well with existing data, more observations of high quality are needed for a thorough test of the Ring effect.
Humphreys T. J.
Kattawar George W.
Young Thomas A.
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