P34B:
Polarimetry as a Tool to Study the Earth, Solar System, and Beyond I


Session ID#: 10384

Session Description:
Polarimetry is a powerful tool providing a wealth of information about various solar system objects (e.g., planetary atmospheres; atmosphereless objects, comets, dust, asteroids, ring systems) and terrestrial phenomena, including habitability. Polarimetric techniques, combined with imaging and spectroscopic methods, are used to explore the microphysics of terrestrial clouds; magnetic fields; biological activity of molecules and properties of regoliths on planetary satellites. The session is open to invited and contributed oral and poster papers about recent observational results; advances in vector radiative transfer theory (including non-sphericity effects on single scattering); laboratory measurements; instrumental developments for imaging and spectropolarimeters to be included in ground-based facilities and space missions in planetary and earth sciences.
Primary Convener:  Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher, Space Science Institute Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ludmilla Kolokolova, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, Paris, France and Herve Lamy, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
Chairs:  Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher, Space Science Institute Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States and Ludmilla Kolokolova, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Astronomy, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher, Space Science Institute Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

6005 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
6015 Dust [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
6207 Comparative planetology [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6297 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Polarization of the Interplanetary Dust Medium (Invited) (65860)
Jeremie Lasue, IRAP-CNRS, Univ. of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, LATMOS/CNRS, UPMC (Sorbonne Univ.), Paris, France and Edith Hadamcik, LATMOS/CNRS, Pierre and Marie Curie Univ., Paris, France
Spectro-polarimetry of Ice-dust Mixtures measured in the Laboratory with Application to the Solar System and Beyond (72446)
Olivier Poch1, Hans Martin Schmid2, Antoine Pommerol3, Bernhard Jost3, Yann Brouet4 and Nicolas Thomas3, (1)University of Bern, NCCR PlanetS, Bern, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, (4)University of Bern, Physics Institute, Bern, Switzerland
Radiative Grain Alignment (Invited) (67035)
B-G Andersson, Universities Space Research Association Moffett Field, SOFIA Science Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Assessment of capabilities of multiangle imaging photo-polarimetry for atmospheric correction in presence of absorbing aerosols (Invited) (68502)
Olga V. Kalashnikova1, Michael J Garay2, Feng Xu3, Felix C Seidel4 and David J Diner4, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Estimating Surface Orientation in Imaging Polarimetry of Solar Illuminated Outdoor Scenes (80522)
Meredith Kupinski1, Russell A Chipman1, David J Diner2, Christine Lavella Bradley1 and Feng Xu3, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
Exact simulation of polarized light reflectance by particle deposits (81764)
Bahareh Ramezan Pour, University of Alabama in Huntsville, PHYSICS & ASTRONOMY, Huntsville, AL, United States and Daniel Mackowski, Auburn University, Mechanical Engineering, Auburn, AL, United States
SPECTROPOLARIMETRY OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS AS GLOBAL SURFACE BIOSIGNATURES (81311)
William B Sparks, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, Mary N. Parenteau, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, Robert E. Blankenship, Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, Thomas A Germer, National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Gaithersburg, MD, United States, Victoria Suzanne Meadows, University of Washington, Astronomy, Seattle, United States and Charles Michael Telesco, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States

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