Cometary dust properties retrieved from polarization observations: Application to C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp and 1P/Halley

Icarus

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 129-144

  Lasue, J ^a   Levasseur Regourd, A C ^a   Hadamcik, E ^a   Alcouffe, G ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Comet Hale Bopp; Comet Halley; Comets; dust; Polarimetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349090786     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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