signature=92f4f01fc36b5bd13f895d2a38901b8e,Planetary Photometry: The Lommel-Seeliger Law

摘要：

The use of the Lommel-Seeliger law is an enduring aspect of planetary photometry. It has the advantage of analytical simplicity as well as, in many cases, being an excellent first approximation to diffuse reflection and in spite of its shortcomings - in particular its inability to display an opposition effect - is still very much in use today in applications as diverse as lightcurve inversion (the determination of asteroid poles and shapes from their lightcurves; Kaasalainen 2003), and the prediction of photometric signatures of unresolved ringed extrasolar planets (Arnold & Schneider 2004). Indeed, it is the topic of exoplanets that has recently generated an interest in planetary photometry by astronomers who would otherwise not be concerned with the subject. Here we present the Lommel-Seeliger law in some detail and as a result point out the existence and consequences of an insidious error that has percolated down through the literature.

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