Integrating polarized light over a planetary disk applied to starlight reflected by extrasolar planets

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 452, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 669-683

  Stam, D M ^a,c   De Rooij, W A ^b,d   Cornet, G ^b,c   Hovenier, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Methods: numerical; Polarization; Radiative transfer; Stars: planetary systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLANETS; VECTORS;

EXTRASOLAR PLANETS; FLUX VECTOR; INTEGRATING POLARIZED LIGHT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 33744963808     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20054364     Document Type: Article

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