Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 1989
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989a%26a...214..391h&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 214, no. 1-2, April 1989, p. 391-401.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Albedo, Astronomical Photometry, Planetary Atmospheres, Light Scattering, Optical Thickness, Planetary Temperature, Radiative Transfer, Reflectance, Planets, Albedo, Photometry, Atmospheres, Thickness, Radiation, Models, Spectrometry, Scattering, Procedure, Calculations, Numerical Methods, Parameters, Reflectivity
Scientific paper
Relations involving the spherical albedo of a planet surrounded by an optically thick atmosphere are tested, revealing that the backscattering lobes of the phase functions significantly affect the way in which the center of disk reflectivity and the geometric albedo depend on the spherical albedo. An expression for the albedo of single scattering provides a lower limit for the effective temperature of a planet and an upper limit for its internal energy source. Diagrams are presented that allow the spherical albedo of a planet to be accurately determined.
Hage Joniek I.
Hovenier Joachim Willem
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