| Session Details | |
| Section | PS - Planetary Sciences |
| Session Title | Spectro-Polarimetric Exploration of Planetary Systems and Their Habitability |
| Main Convener | Dr. Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher (Space Science Institute, United States) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Motohide Tamura (The University of Tokyo/NAOJ, Japan) Dr. Jeremy Bailey (University of New South Wales, Australia) Dr. Ludmilla Kolokolova (University of Maryland, United States) Prof. A.-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd (PMC Univ. Paris 6 / CNRS-IPSL, France) Dr. Sujan Sengupta (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India) |
| Session Description | Spectro-polarimetry is becoming a valuable remote sensing tool to explore our solar system (including earth, planetary atmospheres, satellite, ring systems, comets, asteroids, trans-Neptunian objects, etc.) to understand its formation and evolution. With the increasing diversity of extrasolar planetary systems, it important to understand their formation and evolution and place our solar system in context. This session will include invited and contributed talks on: (i) application of the principles of polarization to remote sensing; and (ii) role of polarization as an independent and complementary remote sensing tool to imaging and spectroscopic techniques; (iii) laboratory measurements and modelling; (iv) instrumentation and missions and (v) astrobiology and habitability. We welcome both polarimetrists and non-polarimetrists (observers, theorists and experimentalists) that study planetary systems to identify the challenges and advances in this growing field. |