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MM-COSMIC ANALOGS
Summary: MM-SIZED SINGLE PARTICLES
mm- cosmic analogs subcategories
Compact
Practical significance

there are some astronomical observations that indicate the presence of millimeter-sized cosmic dust grains. Such is the case of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Fulle et al. 2015, Rotundi et al. 2015), circumstellar disks (e.g., Andrews & Williams 2005; Canovas et al. 2015, 2016; Kataoka et al. 2016), in particular, the circumstellar disk orbiting Fomalhaut and HR 4796A (Kalas et al. 2005, Milli et al. 2017, Min et al. 2010)

Particle size

3.5 mm (volume-equivalent sphere radius)

Particle shape

irregular

All SEM images (zip file)
Images
Refractive index

1.59 +i0.01 (Ball et al. 2015)

Scattering matrix (1) wavelength in nm
520
Scattering matrix (1) plot
Scattering matrix (1) table
Angle range (deg)
[3,170]
Full reference paper

Muñoz O, Moreno F, Vargas-Martín F, Guirado D, Escobar-Cerezo J, Min M, Hovenier JW. Experimental Phase Functions of Millimeter-sized Cosmic Dust Grains. Astrophysical Journal, vol. 846, pp. 846-885, 2017