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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

reqV=1.6 mm (volume-equivalent sphere radius)

Particle shape

irregular

All SEM images (zip file)
Images
Refractive index

m=1.58+i0.00002 (Dorschner et al.1995)

Scattering matrix (1) wavelength in nm
520
Scattering matrix (1) plot
Scattering matrix (1) table
Angle range (deg)
[5,168]
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