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Light scattering by hierarchical aggregates

Kolokolova, Ludmilla; Nagdimunov, Lev; Mackowski, Daniel

Recent in-situ studies of the environment of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the dust instruments onboard the Rosetta spacecraft have indicated a complex structure of cometary dust particles. The majority of those particles appeared to be large aggregates of hierarchical structure, i.e. aggregates of particles, which, in turn, were aggregates o…