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Table 3

Polarization results for Titan.

Integrated polarization Integrated radial polarization Max. radial pol.

Filter λc λeff Ag,eff RT Q/Im U/Im Qr/Im Ur/Im C PSF Qr/I (Qr/I)max
[nm] [nm] [km] [%] [%] [%] [%] [%] [%] [%]

F250W 273 299 0.042 2901 0.13 0.00 0.99 0.03 0.84 1.18 1.82 4.18
F330W 336 341 0.051 2892 –0.81 –0.36 1.10 –0.05 0.85 1.30 2.37 4.40
F435W 432 448 0.097 2871 0.06 0.08 1.71 –0.09 0.86 1.98 3.44 5.31
F625W 632 636 0.219 2835 0.00 0.19 2.51 –0.09 0.85 2.95 4.93 6.86
F775W 768 762 0.211 2813 0.09 0.03 2.97 –0.14 0.82 3.63 5.19 8.70
NIC1 1071 1018 0.155 2771 –1.49 –1.40 4.03 0.04 0.74 5.45 6.90 10.49
NIC2 2002 2022 0.094 2651 –0.30 –0.09 1.99 0.00 0.58 3.42 3.44 *

Notes. The columns give the filter, the central wavelength λc, the effective wavelength λeff, the effective albedo Ag,eff for the photons registered in the broad-band filters, and the Toon et al. (1992) radius RT for λeff. Q/Im, U/Im, Qr/Im, and Ur/Im are the measured disk-integrated polarization parameters. The parameter CPSF describes the degradation of the polarization measurement due to the PSF smearing effect (Sect. 6.4), and the corrected radial polarization value is given by Qr/I ⟩ = ⟨ Qr/Im/CPSF. is the measured maximum radial polarization, whereas (Qr/I)max is the modeled value for infinite resolution. The statistical 1σ error for the disk-integrated polarization is estimated to be Δp ≤ ± 0.1% and ΔCPSF = ± 0.01. In addition, a systematic uncertainty of p)syst. ≈ ± 0.2% is estimated.

(*)

wavelength range of model: 200 nm <λ< 1600 nm.

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