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| The '''Bond albedo''', named after the American astronomer [[George Phillips Bond]] (1825–1865), who originally proposed it, is the fraction of [[power (physics)|power]] in the total [[electromagnetic radiation]] incident on an astronomical body that is scattered back out into space.
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| Because the Bond albedo accounts for all of the light scattered from a body at all [[wavelength]]s and all [[Phase angle (astronomy)|phase angles]], it is a necessary quantity for determining how much energy a body absorbs. This, in turn, is crucial for determining the [[equilibrium temperature]] of a body.
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| Because bodies in the outer Solar System are always observed at very low phase angles from the Earth, the only reliable data for measuring their Bond albedo comes from spacecraft.
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| ==Phase integral==
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| The Bond albedo (''A'') is related to the [[geometric albedo]] (''p'') by the expression
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| A = p q \frac{}{}
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| where ''q'' is termed the ''phase integral'' and is given in terms of the directional scattered flux ''I''(''α'') into phase angle α (averaged over all wavelengths and azimuthal angles) as
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| q = 2\int_0^\pi \frac{I(\alpha)}{I(0)} \sin \alpha \, d\alpha.
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| The phase [[angle]] α is the angle between the source of the radiation (usually the Sun) and the observing direction, and varies from zero for light scattered back towards the source, to 180° for observations looking towards the source. For example, during opposition or looking at the full moon, α is very small, while backlit objects or the new moon have α close to 180°.
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| ==Examples==
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| The Bond albedo is a value strictly between 0 and 1, as it includes all possible scattered light (but not radiation from the body itself). This is in contrast to other definitions of [[albedo]] such as the geometric albedo, which can be above 1. In general, though, the Bond albedo may be greater or smaller than the geometric albedo, depending on surface and atmospheric properties of the body in question.
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| Some examples:<ref>[http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/phyopt/albedo.html Albedo of the Earth<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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| {{astronomical albedo table}}
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| ==See also==
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| * [[Albedo]]
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| *[[Geometric albedo]]
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| ==References==
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| <references>
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| <ref name="earth_fact_sheet">{{cite web|last1=Williams|first1=David R.|date=2004-09-01|url=http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html|title=Earth Fact Sheet|publisher=NASA|accessdate=2010-08-09}}</ref>
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| </references>
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| ==External links==
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| * [http://web.archive.org/web/20090413042346/http://jeff.medkeff.com/astro/lunar/obs_tech/albedo.htm discussion of Lunar albedo]
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| [[Category:Electromagnetic radiation]]
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| [[Category:Astrophysics]]
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| [[Category:Radiometry]]
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| [[Category:Scattering, absorption and radiative transfer (optics)]]
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