Optical Properties of Dust
arXiv:0808.4123
Abstract
Except in a few cases cosmic dust can be studied in situ or in terrestrial laboratories, essentially all of our information concerning the nature of cosmic dust depends upon its interaction with electromagnetic radiation. This chapter presents the theoretical basis for describing the optical properties of dust -- how it absorbs and scatters starlight and reradiates the absorbed energy at longer wavelengths.
22 pages, 4 figures; a book chapter in "Small Bodies in Planetary Sciences" (Lecture Notes in Physics vol. 758), I. Mann, A. Nakamura, & T. Mukai (eds.), Springer, Chapter 6, pp. 167--188;