Rydberg matter as the dust atmosphere in comets: Spectroscopic and polarization signatures

Icarus

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 555-564

  Holmlid, Leif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, composition; Comets, Borrelly; Comets, Hale Bopp; Comets, Halley; Infrared observations; Polarization; Rydberg Matter; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 30844433974     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.09.004     Document Type: Article

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