Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jul 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998mnras.298..303f&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 298, Issue 1, pp. 303-309.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Polarization, Scattering, Moon, Ultraviolet: Solar System
Scientific paper
Portions of the Moon were observed by the Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photopolarimeter Experiment (WUPPE) on 1995 March 12, 14 and 17, and represent the first ultraviolet (UV) spectropolarimetric observations of the Moon. The polarimetric observations confirm that a change in the dominant scattering process occurs in the UV, changing from volume scattering in the near-UV to surface scattering in the far-UV. The data are investigated empirically. It is found that Umov's relationship holds when the polarization is perpendicular to the scattering plane. It is also found that the degree of polarization can be modelled by a phase-angle-dependent polarization modified by a wavelength-dependent depolarization factor. The scattering function for each observation is determined.
Anderson Martha C.
Babler Brian L.
Bjorkman Karen S.
Code Arthur D.
Fox Geoffrey K.
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