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The moon as a cosmic source of linearly polarized radio emission

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We analyze parameters of the partially linearly polarized thermal radio emission from the Moon taking the effects of radiative heat transfer and surface roughness into account. The distributions of the Stokes parameters I, Q, and U over the visible lunar disk are considered. The polarization parameters of the integral radio emission as functions of the frequency and the Moon phase are obtained by integrating the Q and U distributions. We consider the possibility of using the Moon as a reference source of partially linearly polarized radiation for space-borne and ground-based projects aimed at studying polarization of the Galactic radio emission and the cosmic microwave background.

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 50, No. 7, pp. 593–606, July 2007.

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Vinyaikin, E.N., Krotikov, V.D. The moon as a cosmic source of linearly polarized radio emission. Radiophys Quantum El 50, 542–554 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-007-0048-2

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