2009/06/02 by Enric Palle, E. Pallé · 7 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Earth (classical element) #Exoplanet #Infrared #Planet #Polarimetry #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Sunlight #astro-ph.EP
paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/eas/1041041
published in EAS Publications Series 41, 505-516 (EDP Sciences) · To appear in the proceedings of the Les Houches Winter School "Physics and Astrophysics of Planetary Systems",(EDP Sciences: EAS Publications Series)
arxiv created 2009/06/02 · openalex publication_date 2010/01/01 · arxiv updated 2015/05/13 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Earthshine is sunlight that has been reflected from the dayside Earth onto the dark side of the Moon and back again to Earth. In recent times, there has been a renewed interest in ground-based visible and near infrared measurements of the earthshine, as a proxy for exoplanet observations. Observations of the earthshine allow us to explore and characterize the globally-integrated photometric, spectral and polarimetric features of the Earth, and to extract precise information on what are the distinctive characteristics of our planet, and life in particular. They also allow us to quantify how this features changes with time and orbital configurations.