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Optical Properties of Dust

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Except in a few cases, cosmic dust can be studied in situ or in terrestrial laboratories, essentially all of our information concerning the nature of cosmic dust depends on its interaction with electromagnetic radiation. This chapter presents the theoretical basis for describing the optical properties of dust—how it absorbs and scatters starlight and reradiates the absorbed energy at longer wavelengths.

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Li, A. (2008). Optical Properties of Dust. In: Mann, I., Nakamura, A., Mukai, T. (eds) Small Bodies in Planetary Systems. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 758. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76935-4_6

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