The First Ground-based White Light Lunar Polarization Imaging:A New Kind of FeO Observation on the Near Side of the Moon  

作　　者：Wei-Nan Wang Jin-Song Ping Ming-Yuan Wang Wen-Zhao Zhang Han-Lin Ye Xing-Wei Han Song-Feng Kou 

机构地区：[1]Changchun Observatory,National Astronomical Observatories,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Changchun 130117,China [2]National Astronomical Observatories,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101,China [3]University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 101408,China [4]Astronomy Department,Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875,China [5]International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences,Institute of Atmospheric Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029,China [6]Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Nanjing 210042,China

出　　处：《Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics》2024年第6期1-6,共6页天文和天体物理学研究（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFA0715101);partly supported by a National LLR station project;the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,Grant Nos.11973064 and 42101413);Jilin Province Mid-youth science and technology innovation and entrepreneurship outstanding talent project(20220508147RC);the Changchun City and Chinese Academy of Sciences Science and Technology Cooperation High-tech Industrialization Special Fund Project(21SH05)。

摘　　要：Lunar optical polarization is a fascinating phenomenon that occurs when sunlight reflects off the surface of the Moon and becomes polarized.This study employs a novel split-focus plane polarimetric camera to conduct the initial white light polarimetric observations on the near side of the Moon.We obtained the linear degree of polarization(DOP)parameters of white light by observation from the eastern and western hemispheres of the Moon.The findings indicate that the white light polarization is lower in the lunar highland than in the lunar maria overall.Combining the analysis of lunar soil samples,we noticed and determined that the DOP parameters of white light demonstrate high consistency with iron oxide on the Moon.This study may serve as a new diagnostic tool for the Moon.

关 键 词：techniques:photometric POLARIZATION methods:observational MOON 

分 类 号：P184.5[天文地球—天文学]