Zodiacal light gathered along the line of sight - Retrieval of the local scattering coefficient from photometric surveys of the ecliptic plane

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Jan 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985p%26ss...33....1d&link_type=abstract

Planetary and Space Science (ISSN 0032-0633), vol. 33, Jan. 1985, p. 1-9.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Interplanetary Medium, Line Of Sight, Scattering Coefficients, Zodiacal Light, Astronomical Photometry, Backscattering, Brightness, Mathematical Models, Solar Orbits

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Associating to each photometric observation in the ecliptic the second intersection of the line of sight with the terrestrial orbit offers a clue for retrieving considerable information about the local quantities (elemental brightness, or scattering coefficient) all along that line. At one peculiar point outside the orbit ("martian node") and at one inside the orbit ("quasi-radial node"), the scattering coefficient is remarkably insensitive to the mathematical model, if assumed sufficiently smooth, as strongly suggested by the smoothness of the brightness vs the geometric parameters. The locations of these "nodes of lesser uncertainty" in the ecliptic plane are fairly favourable in order to deconvolve the heliocentric (r) from the angular (θ) dependences of the scattering coefficient, D. Various photometric results in the range 0.5 - 1.5 a.u. can be derived about these two functions, without recourse to the classical but suspicious assumption of a uniform composition of the interplanetary matter.

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