Optical Models of the Three Dimensional Distribution of Interplanetary Dust

Abstract

ABSTRACT. Several models of three dimensional distributions of the interplanetary dust number densities are compared with observational values. It is shown that a comparatively satisfying fit can be achieved by distributions similar to the "Sombrero-Model" of Dumont and that multilobe models as recently proposed by Buitrago et al. can be rejected due to discrepancies with rocket photometry of the inner zodiacal light.