Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
May 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985a%26a...146...67h&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 146, no. 1, May 1985, p. 67-75.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
41
Light Scattering, Scattering Functions, Zodiacal Dust, Zodiacal Light, Brightness Distribution, Ecliptic, Integral Equations, Least Squares Method, Phase Shift, Polarized Light
Scientific paper
To determine the scattering characteristics of interplanetary particles, the author substitutes a linear combination of three Henyey-Greenstein functions for the mean volume scattering phase function in the zodiacal light brightness integral. Residuals are obtained by comparing the observed zodiacal light in the ecliptic with results of the integral. Minimization of the residuals leads to a scattering function which has a strong peak in the forward direction, an isotropic part at intermediate scattering angles and a mild enhancement in the backward direction. The same method is employed to analyze the polarized components of the zodiacal light.
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