Dusty porous ball in fixed orientation

Categories
MM-COSMIC ANALOGS
Summary: MM-SIZED SINGLE PARTICLES
mm- cosmic analogs subcategories
Porous
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

reqV=2.5 mm (volume-equivalent sphere radius)

Particle shape

oblate spheroid, irregularly highly porous

Refractive index

imaginary part higher than that of the White Porous Ball In Fixed Orientation

Scattering matrix (1) wavelength in nm
520
Scattering matrix (1) plot
Scattering matrix (1) table
Angle range (deg)
[8,170]
Full reference paper

Muñoz O, Moreno F, Gómez-Martín JC et al. Experimental Phase Function and Degree of Linear Polarization Curves of Millimetersized Cosmic Dust Analogs. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 247, pp. 19-32, 2020