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大聚集体散射光的偏振

Polarization of light scattered by large aggregates

Ludmilla Kolokolova, Daniel Mackowski

摘要:

对宇宙尘埃和行星气溶胶的研究表明,其中一些含有大量聚集体,其大小明显超过可见光的波长。在某些情况下,这种大的聚集体可能在形成灰尘的光散射特性中占主导地位。在本文中,我们提出的结果,包含超过1000个单体的亚微米尺寸的聚集体的光散射的计算机建模和研究他们的光散射特性,特别是偏振,相位角和波长的变化。由于开发了用于并行计算的新版本的MSTM(多球T矩阵)代码,这样的建模成为可能。建模的结果被应用到彗星偏振观测的结果,以检查大的聚集体是否占主导地位,形成光散射彗星尘埃。我们比较了不同结构和孔隙度的聚集体。我们发现,大于98%的孔隙率(如弹道簇-簇聚集体)的大聚集体具有几乎相同的瑞利极化的角度依赖性。大的致密聚集体(孔隙率小于80%)展示了固体颗粒的典型曲线。这就排除了典型彗星尘埃颗粒过于多孔和过于致密的聚集体。我们发现,大的聚集体不仅可以解释相位角依赖性的彗星偏振在近红外,但也可能是负责偏振的波长依赖性,这可以与它们的孔隙率。

英文摘要:

Study of cosmic dust and planetary aerosols indicate that some of them contain a large number of aggregates of the size that significantly exceeds the wavelengths of the visible light. In some cases such large aggregates may dominate in formation of the light scattering characteristics of the dust. In this paper we present the results of computer modelling of light scattering by aggregates that contain more than 1000 monomers of submicron size and study how their light scattering characteristics, specifically polarization, change with phase angle and wavelength. Such a modeling became possible due to development of a new version of MSTM (Multi Sphere T-Matrix) code for parallel computing. The results of the modeling are applied to the results of comet polarimetric observations to check if large aggregates dominate in formation of light scattering by comet dust. We compare aggregates of different structure and porosity. We show that large aggregates of more than 98% porosity (e.g. ballistic cluster-cluster aggregates) have angular dependence of polarization almost identical to the Rayleigh one. Large compact aggregates (less than 80% porosity) demonstrate the curves typical for solid particles. This rules out too porous and too compact aggregates as typical comet dust particles. We show that large aggregates not only can explain phase angle dependence of comet polarization in the near infrared but also may be responsible for the wavelength dependence of polarization, which can be related to their porosity.

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