Tholins

Categories
MICRON-COSMIC ANALOGS
Summary: AEROSOLS
Micron- cosmic analogs subcategories
Comets
Origin

synthesis

Main constituent
common compounds of C, O and N
Practical significance

cometary dust analog

Particle shape

irregular

All SEM images (zip file)
Refractive index

1.35 + i0.023 (estimation based on constituents)

Color
dark
Scattering matrix (1) wavelength in nm
647
Scattering matrix (1) plot
Scattering matrix (1) table
Angle range (deg)
[5,177]
Full reference paper

Frattin E, Muñoz O, Moreno F, Nava J, Escobar-Cerezo J, Gomez Martin JC,Guirado D, Cellino A, Coll P, Raulin F, Bertini I, Cremonese G, Lazzarin M, Naletto G, La Forgia F. Experimental phase function and degree of linear polarization of cometary dust analogues. MNRAS, vol. 484, pp. 2198–2211, 2019