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CLASS Observations of Atmospheric Cloud Polarization at millimeter Wavelengths

  • Authors: Yunyang Li, 云炀 李, John W. Appel, Charles L. Bennett, Ricardo Bustos, David T. Chuss, Joseph Cleary, Jullianna Denes Couto, Sumit Dahal, Rahul Datta, Rolando Dünner, Joseph R. Eimer, Thomas Essinger-Hileman, Kathleen Harrington, Jeffrey Iuliano, Tobias A. Marriage, Matthew A. Petroff, Rodrigo A. Reeves, Karwan Rostem, Rui Shi, 瑞 时, Deniz A. N. Valle, Duncan J. Watts, Oliver F. Wolff, Edward J. Wollack, Zhilei Xu, 智磊 徐

Yunyang Li et al 2023 The Astrophysical Journal 958 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

Illustration of cloud polarization. Clouds containing water droplets and horizontally aligned ice crystals scatter thermal radiation from the ground and the atmosphere, directing linearly polarized radiation into the telescope. The two orthogonal linear polarization states are labeled; they correspond to the Q (0°, in orange) and −Q (90°, i.e., horizontal, in blue) Stokes parameter evaluated in the horizontal frame of the telescope. Clouds are depicted as cumulus clouds instead of cirrus for their aesthetic appeal. Objects are not to scale.

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