Computer Science
Scientific paper
Aug 1983
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983m%26p....29....1w&link_type=abstract
Moon and the Planets (ISSN 0165-0807), vol. 29, Aug. 1983, p. 1-6.
Computer Science
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Atmospheric Scattering, Comet Heads, Cometary Atmospheres, Light Scattering, Solar Radiation, Brightness Distribution, Eddington Approximation, Solar Flux
Scientific paper
The problem of the intensity of light impinging on the nucleus head of a comet with a spherically symmetric scattering atmosphere is considered in view of its importance to calculations of gas production rates in a cometary atmosphere. Moment equations are obtained from the equations of transfer of diffuse radiation in an anisotropic scattering spherically symmetric cometary hydrogen atmosphere illuminated by parallel solar radiation, with intensity represented by a three-stream approximation, and solved numerically. The brightness distribution along the intensity equator of the comet and the average intensity falling on the nucleus head of the comet are then computed for the case of pure scattering.
Wan F. S.
Wilson J. S.
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