Polarimetry of Stars and Planetary Systems

Part I. Introduction: 1. Preface Ludmilla Kolokolova, James Hough and Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd; 2. The life of Tom Gehrels Neil Gehrels, George Gehrels, Jo-Ann Gehrels and Aleida Gehrels; Part II. Theory, Instrumentation, Laboratory Studies: 3. Measurement and modelling of electromagnetic scattering by particles and particle groups Michael I. Mishchenko; 4. Instrumentation Christoph U. Keller, Frans Snik, David M. Harrington and Chris Packham; 5. Laboratory studies Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd, Jean-Baptiste Renard, Yuriy Shkuratov and Edith Hadamcik; 6. Grain alignment: role of radiative torques and paramagnetic relaxation Alexander Lazarian, B.-G. Andersson and Thiem Hoang; 7. Multiple scattering of light in particulate planetary media Karri Muinonen, Antti Penttilae and Gorden Videen; 8. Experimental scattering matrices of clouds of randomly oriented particles Olga Munoz and Joop W. Hovenier; Part III. Stars and their Environment: 9. Interstellar polarization Terry Jay Jones and Douglas C. B. Whittet; 10. Young stellar objects and their environment Motohide Tamura and Jungmi Kwon; 11. T Tauri and Herbig Ae/Be stars Pierre Bastien; 12. Magnetic fields in high-mass star forming regions Antonio Chrysostomou, Martin Houde and Brenda C. Matthews; 13. Evolved stars Tim Gledhill; 14. Stellar magnetic fields Stefano Bagnulo and John D. Landstreet; 15. Imaging of protoplanetary and debris disks Marshall D. Perrin, Dean C. Hines, John P. Wisniewski and Glenn Schneider; Part IV. Solar System: 16. The Sun Jan O. Stenflo; 17. Terrestrial planets Vadim Kaydash, Yuriy Shkuratov, Michael Wolff and Gorden Videen; 18. The Moon Yuriy Shkuratov, Nikolay Opanasenko, Viktor Korokhin and Gorden Videen; 19. Gas giant planets, Saturn's rings, and Titan Robert West, Padma Yanamandra-Fisher and Viktor Korokhin; 20. Icy moons of the outer planets Vera Rosenbush, Nikolai Kiselev and Viktor Afanasiev; 21. Asteroids Alberto Cellino, Ricardo Gil-Hutton and Irina Belskaya; 22. Comets Nikolai Kiselev, Vera Rosenbush, Anny Chantal Levasseur-Regourd and Ludmilla Kolokolova; 23. Transneptunian objects and Centaurs Irina Belskaya and Stefano Bagnulo; 24. Interplanetary dust Jeremie Lasue, Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd and Alexander Lazarian; Part V. Exoplanets and Exobiology: 25. Exoplanets Sloane J. Wiktorowicz and Daphne M. Stam; 26. Astrobiology William Sparks, James Hough and Ludmilla Kolokolova; Appendix A. Polarimetric definitions for astronomy.