1.8: Diffuse Reflection and Transmission
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A scattering layer of finite optical thickness t may be used to model e.g. a planetary ring. If we use the Lommel-Seeliger model, then the reflected radiance of such a layer may be determined by changing the upper limit of the integral in equation (20) so that
\[L_{r}=\frac{\varpi_{0} \mathbf{F}}{4 \pi \mu} \times \int_{0}^{t} \exp \left[-\tau\left(\frac{1}{\mu_{0}}+\frac{1}{\mu}\right)\right] d \tau\]
resulting in
\[L_{r}=\frac{w_{0}}{4 \pi} \frac{1}{\mu+\mu_{0}} \times \left[1-\exp \left\{-t\left(\frac{1}{\mu_{0}}+\frac{1}{\mu}\right)\right\}\right] \mu_{0} \mathbf{F}\]
For the transmitted radiance, it is readily shown that
\[d L_{t}=\frac{\varpi_{0} \mathbf{F} e^{-\tau / \mu_{0}}}{4 \pi \mu} e^{-(t-\tau) / \mu} d \tau\]
and in the special case \(μ = μ_0\), integration results in
\[L_{t}=\frac{\varpi_{0} \mathbf{F} t}{4 \pi \mu_{0}} e^{-t / \mu_{0}}\]
and otherwise
\[L_{t}=\frac{\varpi_{0} \mathbf{F}}{4 \pi} \frac{\mu_{0}}{\mu-\mu_{0}}\left[e^{-t / \mu}-e^{-t / \mu_{0}}\right]\]
In all cases the values of μ and μ0 are positive; some authors even explicitly put in absolute value symbols to emphasise this point!