The following figures show the behaviour of the efficiency factors Qext, Qsca,
Qabs as well as albedo Λ and asymmetry parameter g for porous particles.
Calculations are performed for pseudospheres having inclusions of different
sizes (both Rayleigh and non-Rayleigh ones) using the discrete dipole approximation.
These optical characteristics are compared with results of Lorenz-Mie calculations for corresponding
n-layered spheres.
The refractive indices of inclusions are:
1.200+0.000i ((biological particles in the visual part of the spectrum),
1.330+0.010i (dirty ice),
1.578+1.038i (center of the 10 micron silicate feature),
1.680+0.030i (silicate),
1.750+0.058i (soot),
1.980+0.230i (amorphous carbon).
The porosity of particles (the volume fraction of vacuum) is P = 0.33 and
P = 0.9.
For given porosity the particles of the same size parameter xporous
have the same mass (see for more details Voshchinnikov et al., 2007)
and are compared in the following figures
organized in the tables.
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