Physically reasonable analytic expression for the single-scattering phase function.
An analytic phase function that reduces to the Rayleigh phase function for the scattering of unpolarized light is presented and compared with the traditional Henyey-Greenstein phase function. Comparisons between the proposed phase function and the phase function for three of Deirmendjian's polydispersions are shown and applications to radiative transfer are demonstrated.
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