Circular polarization in comets: Observations of Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) and tentative interpretation

Icarus

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 317-330

  Rosenbush, Vera ^a   Kolokolova, Ludmilla ^b   Lazarian, Alexander ^c   Shakhovskoy, Nikolai ^d   Kiselev, Nikolai ^a  

^a NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF UKRAINE   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d CRIMEAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Comets; dust; Polarimetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846319763     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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