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Inversion of the Zodiacal Brightness Integral: a new Geometric Approach Suitable for the Out-Of-Ecliptic Zodiacal Light Programme

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

René Dumont  and
Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd
René Dumont
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Bordeaux, France
Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd
Affiliation:
Service d'Aéronomie, Verrières-le-Buisson, France

Abstract

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The information provided by measurements of the zodiacal brightness, Z, is discussed as a function of the looking direction, with respect to the velocity vector of the observer through the solar system. In addition to a few directions which allow inversion of the brightness integral completely free of assumptions, it is shown that the orbital plane gives inverting possibilities, based on a single assumption on the heliocentric dependence of the volume scattering efficiency. Important features of the zodiacal cloud distribution, very difficult to obtain from earthbound observations, will easily be derived from the data of the Out-Of-Ecliptic Zodiacal Light Experiment.

Type
I: Zodiacal Light - Measurements and Models
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 90: Solid Particles in the Solar System , 1980 , pp. 67 - 70
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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