Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Contents; Foreword / John S. Hall; Preface / T. Gehrels; Part I
  • General Theory and Techniques; Introduction and Overview / T. Gehrels; Polarimetric Definitions / D. Clarke; Mechanisms that Produce Linear and Circular Polarization / J.R.P. Angel; Electromagnetic Radiation and Dissymmetry / Dennis J. Caldwell and Henry Eyring; Coherence and its Application in the Beam-Foil Light Source / C.H. Liu and S. Bashkin; Some Examples of Exact and Approximate Solutions in Small Particle Scattering: A Progress Report / J. Mayo Greenberg; Polarimeters for Optical Astronomy / K. Serkowski.
  • Application of Mueller Calculus in Astronomical Polarimetry: Achromatic Modulators and Polarization Converters, and Depolarizers / J. Tinbergen; Optical Polarimeters in Space / David L. Coffeen; Photographic Polarization Measurements of Venus / Reta Beebe; Spatial Distribution of Polarization over the Disks of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn and the Moon / John W. Fountain; Diffraction Grating Polarization / James B. Breckinridge; Attempt to Measure Stellar Magnetic Fields Using a Low-Light Level Television Camera / G.G. Fahlman, J.W. Glaspey, O. Jensen, G.A.H. Walker, and J.R. Auman.
  • The High Altitude Observatory Stokes Polarimeter / T. Baur, G.W. Curtis, H. Hull, and J. Rush; The High Altitude Observatory Coronal-Emission-Line Polarimeter / C.W. Querfeld; Stellar and Solar X-Ray Polarimetry / R. Novick; The Berkeley Infrared Polarization Survey / Robert Landau; Astronomical Polarimetry in the Far Infrared (10
  • 1000 um) / G. Dall'Oglio, B. Melchiorri, F. Melchiorri, V. Natale, S. Aiello, and F. Mencaraglia; Radio Measurements of Polarization / R.G. Conway; Radar Polarimetry / G. Leonard Tyler; Part II
  • Surfaces and Molecules.
  • Polarization Effects in the Observation of Artificial Satellites / Kenneth E. Kissell; Polarizations of Asteroids and Satellites / Edward Bowell and Ben Zellner; Polarization in a Mineral Absorption Band / Carle E. Pieters; MIE Scattering of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field by the Whole Moon / C.P. Sonett and D.S. Colburn; Heuristic Arguments for the Pattern of Polarization in Deep Ocen Water / John E. Tyler; The Polarization of Light in the Environment / K.L. Coulson; Polarimeters in Animals / Talbot H. Waterman.
  • The Circular Polarization of Light Reflected from Certain Optically Active Surfaces / Ramon D. Wolstencroft; Polarimetric Investigations of the Turbidity of the Atmosphere over Los Angeles / T. Takashima, H.S. Chen, and C.R. Nagaraja Rao; Measurements of the Elliptical Polarization of Sky Radiation: Preliminary Results / Dieter Hannemann and Ehrhard Raschke; Noctilucent Clouds / G. Witt; Polarization Studies of Planetary Atmospheres / D.L. Coffeen and J.E. Hansen; Invariant Imbedding and Chandrasekhar's Planetary Problem of Polarized Light / S. Ueno, S. Mukai, and A.P. Wang; Polarization Measurements of Jupiter and the Great Red Spot / John S. Hall and Louise A. Riley.