INTAS project
Polarized light from comets, planets and circumstellar shells:
observations and radiative transfer modelling
- Project Coordinator:
- Prof. J. Hough (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom)
- Teams:
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg,
Germany (4 persons)
Sobolev Astronomical Institute, St.Petersburg
State University, Russia (5 persons)
Institute of Computational Mathematics and
Mathematical Geophysics, Novosibirsk, Russia (5 persons)
Special Astrophysical Observatory of
Russian Academy of Science, Russia (3 persons)
Research Institute of Astronomy,
Kharkov National University, Ukraina (4 persons)
St.Petersburg State University of Aerocosmic
Instrumentation, Russia (3 persons)
Basic Documents:
Possible duration:
- January 1st, 2004 - December 31st, 2006
List of tasks:
- Observational study of dusty objects in
polarized light, modelling, interpretation of observations
- Evolved stars and protoplanetary nebulae
- Young stellar objects and star formation regions
- Comets and cometary0like bodies
- Stars with protoplanetary discs and planets
- Mathematical modelling, development of
sophisticated radiative transfer methods and software
- Construction of special algorithms for simulation of
polarized radiation transfer in dusty objects
- Development of Monte Carlo codes for consideration
of cosmic media and their paralleling
- Light scattering theory and experiments
- Theoretical investigations of the light scattering by
non-spherical particles
- Experimental study of the scattering properties of
irregularly shaped mineral particles
- Electronic database on light scattering applications in astronomy
Expected results and their dessimination:
Events:
- Prof. Voshchinnikov (a coordinating person from the fSU side)
attends both western partner groups to discuss the project
for a month in April-May, 2003.
- Meeting of 10 participants (incl. the project coordinator
Prof. Hough and Prof. Voshchinnikov) from 4 teams should occur
during a polarization NATO workshop in Yalta, Ukraine.
Miscellaneous:
- The site
of the previous INTAS project (Open Call 1999 grant 652)
focussed on light scattering by non-spherical inhomogeneous
cosmic dust grains and extended in this project by consideration
of radiative transfer in various media populated by such particles,
different object observations and their modelling and interpretation.
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