P41D:
Polarimetry as a Tool to Study the Earth, Solar System, and Beyond II Posters


Session ID#: 8664

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:  Herve Lamy, Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aeronomie, Brussel, Belgium, Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher, Space Science Institute Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States and William B Sparks, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, 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:

A New Spectropolarimeter to Study the Polarization of Earth’s Auroral Emission Lines (69813)
Herve Lamy1, Mathieu Barthelemy2, Jean Lilensten2 and Magnar Gullikstad Johnsen3, (1)Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (2)IPAG, Grenoble, France, (3)University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
Dust Particle Alignment in the Solar Magnetic Field: a Possible Cause of the Cometary Circular Polarization (62916)
Ludmilla Kolokolova1, Christoph Koenders2, Vera Rosenbush3, Nikolai Kiselev3, Alexandra Ivanova4 and Viktor Afanasiev5, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Astronomy, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Technical University Braunschweig, Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, Braunschweig, Germany, (3)Main Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, (4)Main Astronomical Observatory of the Academy Of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, (5)Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnij Arkhyz, Russia
Polarimetic Study of Atmospheric Phenomena and Its Applications (77557)
Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher, Space Science Institute Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States
Polarization Ray Tracing Calculation of Polarized Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (pBRDF) of Microfaceted Surfaces to Investigate Multiple Reflection Effects (79853)
Christine Lavella Bradley1, Meredith Kupinski1, Feng Xu2, David J Diner3 and Russell A Chipman1, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

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