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Commission 21: Light of the Night Sky: (Lumiere du Ciel Nocturne)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

S. Bowyer ,
P. Lamy ,
E. Dwek ,
B. Gustafson ,
M. Hanner ,
A. Ch. Levasseur-Regourd ,
J. Mikhail ,
I. Mann ,
T. Mukai  and
T. Matsumoto

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It has been known that non spherical silicate particles of a size comparable to the wavelength of light, and aggregates of such particles, produce negative polarization in the backscattering region (e.g. Xing & Hanner 1997, Yanamandra-Fisher & Hanner, 1999). It has now been shown that large aggregates of small absorbing particles of fractal dimension about 2 produce a slightly negative polarization at small phase angles (Levasseur-Regourd et al., 1997). The phase-curves strongly differ from those of Mie spheroidal particles. They are likely to be due to scattering by irregular dust particles and/or fluffy aggregates of numerous submicronic absorbing particles (Levasseur-Regourd et al., 1997; Lumme et al., 1997).

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Divisions and their Commissions
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Transactions of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 24 , Issue 1: Reports on Astronomy , 2000 , pp. 152 - 155
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2000

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