Bio-signatures of Planet Earth from Spectropolarimetry
Abstract
Polarimetry is routinely used to characterise the surfaces of bodies in our solar system. In the near future, polarisation measurements of the starlight reflected by exoplanets will become a common and powerful tool to constrain the atmospheres and the surface properties of other worlds.
- Publication:
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Polarimetry
- Pub Date:
- October 2015
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2015IAUS..305..305S
- Keywords:
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- polarisation;
- radiative transfer;
- scattering;
- atmospheric effects;
- Earth;
- Moon