Description of the POLARIMETRY OF PLANETARY SATELLITES     
        bundle V1.0
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Bundle Generation Date: 2020-08-17
Peer Review: 2012 Asteroid Review, Wed May 30 00:00:00 MST 2012               
Discipline node: Small Bodies Node


Content description based on the data set catalog file description for the PDS3 version, EAR-SA-COMPIL-3-SATPOL-V1.0
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Note: for PDS3 data sets migrated to PDS4, the following text is taken
verbatim from the data set description and confidence level note of the
PDS3 data set catalog file. In these cases, some details may not be correct
as a description of the PDS4 bundle.
                                                           
    This compilation by Zaitsev, Rosenbush, and Kiselev presents a collection 
    of 2355 published and 105 unpublished results in planetary satellite      
    polarimetry. The database contains 2460 measurements of linear            
    polarization of planetary satellites including 15 measurements of         
    polarization for the Martian satellites (Phobos and Deimos), 2318         
    measurements for 5 Jovian satellites (Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, and 
    Himalia), 127 measurements for 2 Saturnian satellites (Titan and Iapetus).
                                                                              
    The broad-band measurements within the spectral region 233-850 nm are     
    presented. The range of phase angles is 0.1-154 deg. The geometric        
    conditions of observations (phase angle, planetographic longitude and     
    latitude of the target disk center seen by the observer, and position     
    angle of the scattering plane) are calculated for given moments of time   
    according to the JPL Horizons ephemeris system. We have compiled 19       
    references to the published papers and some unpublished sources.          
                                                                              
    The data are provided in a tabular ASCII format in the data file          
    'polsat.tab'.  The references cited for each entry are provided in full in
    the file 'polsatrefs.tab'. The database can be used as the observational  
    basis for detailed theoretical modeling, interpretation of the phase-angle
    and spectral dependence of polarization, and for selecting future         
    space-mission targets.                                                    
                                                                              
    It is planned to include polarimetry results for Saturn's Rings, as well  
    as our not yet published results for satellites of Saturn and Uranus, in a
    future update of this data set.


Known issues or problems with the data
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    See the individual published references for information on the reliability
    of the individual observations.

PDS3 Source
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Version 1.0 of this bundle was migrated from version 1.0 of the PDS3 data set EAR-SA-COMPIL-3-SATPOL-V1.0.