Reflection and Transmission of Light by Thick Atmospheres of Pure Scatterers with a Phase Function: 1 + ϖ_{1}P_{1}(cos θ) + ϖ_{2}P_{2}(cos θ)
Abstract
Exact radiative transfer theory is applied to the case of parallel light incident from an arbitrary direction on a non-absorbing plane-parallel atmosphere of large optical thickness, scattering according to a phase function:1 + 1P1 (cos 9) + 2P2 (cos 0) Azimuth-independent terms only are taken into account. Simple asymptotic formulae are obtained for the total reflectance and transmittance and for the auxiliary functions 4, and , 0 < j < 2.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- September 1967
- DOI:
- 10.1086/149295
- Bibcode:
- 1967ApJ...149..665O