Angular Atmosphere

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Interferometry in astronomy is used to surpass the limitations on angular resolution set by the Earth s atmosphere (i. e., speckle interferometry), or by the diffraction of the aperture of a single telescope. We will focus in this lecture on interferometry with multiple telescope arrays with which it is possible to obtain information on spatial scales of the source beyond the diffraction limit of its member telescopes. 

An example of practical importance in atmospheric physics is the inference of effective optical constants for atmospheric aerosols composed of various kinds of particles and the subsequent use of these optical constants in other ways. One might infer effective n and k from measurements—made either in the laboratory or remotely by, for example, using bistatic lidar—of angular scattering fitting the experimental data with Mie theory would give effective optical constants. But how effectual would they be Would they have more than a limited applicability Would they be more than merely consistent with an experiment of limited scope It is by no means certain that they would lead to correct calculations of extinction or backscattering or absorption. We shall return to these questions in Section 14.2. 

For 1 1 electrolytes the simplest choice for n is unity (as in Figure lb) and is shown to be appropriate by comparison with experiment. Thus we have n = 1, X = 1 (cos 0i = 1, 0i = 0), and can take any value, since m = 0 and does not depend on (p. Variants of Equation 39 are easily obtained for other than uni-univalent salts by choosing a structure for the reduced ionic atmosphere in the light of symmetry and chemical intuition. This is illustrated with reference to the divalent ion of a 1 2 electrolyte, where it is reasonable as a first approximation to suppose that the ionic cloud will have two diametrically opposed maxima, each at a distance 1 /k from the reference ion. It is easy to see that dipoles induced on the central ion by these two charge centers will cancel, as well all higher terms of odd Z, but that quadrupolar effects (Z = 2) and other terms of even Z will not. For the structure factor the coordinates of the two maxima in dq are 0i = 0 and 02 = 7r, while the atmosphere is still symmetrical with respect to the angular coordinate [Pg.211]

Fig. 7.15. Angular correlation spectra (left) and corresponding derived positronium momentum distributions F(p) (see the text for details) for silica aerogel under the following conditions (a) vacuum (b) 1 atmosphere of N2 gas (c) 0.1 atmospheres of O2 gas (d) 0.2 atmospheres of 02 gas (e) 0.4 atmospheres of O2 gas (f) 0.8 atmospheres of O2 gas. The arrows on the right-hand diagrams indicate the momenta corresponding to the excitation energies of the a1Ag and the b1Eg states of O2. A discussion of the components marked I and II can be found in the text.

Fig. 7.21. Angular correlation curves for mixtures of O2 and CI2 gases with an overall pressure of 120 atmospheres, (a) Pure O2, (b) O2 with 0.02 atmospheres of Cl2, (c) O2 with 0.05 atmospheres of CI2, (d) 02 with 0.2 atmospheres of CI2 and (e) O2 with 1 atmosphere of CI2. Goldanskii and Mokrushin (1968) attributed the components labelled Wi, W2 and W3 to the annihilation of thermalized para-positronium atoms (Wi, the narrow component), the annihilation of free positrons in O2 (W2) and the annihilation of positrons in the PsCl compound (W3). The intensity of the last, i.e. W3, grows progressively with the addition of CI2 to the O2 buffer.

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