Optical Constants of the Mixture of Ices
Abstract
The Maxwell-Garnett mixing rule (MG) was applied to estimate the optical constant m * of the mixture of ices. A fairly good agreement between the resulting values of m * and those of our laboratory measurements suggests that the MG rule becomes a powerful tool to derive the unknown optical constants of natural dirty-ice, when there are no chemical bonds between the guest and host materials. Our results would provide the knowledge of the optical constants of dirty-ice for studies of icy substances on the surface of satellites, cometary nucleus and interplanetary dust grains based on their reflectance spectra.
- Publication:
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Earth Moon and Planets
- Pub Date:
- October 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00057607
- Bibcode:
- 1986EM&P...36..145M
- Keywords:
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- Ammonia;
- Ice;
- Icy Satellites;
- Optical Properties;
- Refractivity;
- Cometary Atmospheres;
- Inclusions;
- Infrared Interferometers;
- Interplanetary Dust;
- Reflectance