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Raytracing and quantifying the inferior mirage

  • Nathan Hagen
  • Lucas Reyes Bentancor
  • Kakeru Tanaka
  • Norimasa Hanaya
  • Momo Shoda
  • Hiroki Maki
  • Takuma Ando
  • Keisaku Yoshizawa
  • Kayo Suzuki
  • Yume Yamada
  • Asana Kumakura
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Abstract

Using custom raytracing code, we explore several features of the inferior mirage that are not widely discussed, such as the blurring in the mirage image, and what happens to the light in the direct image region that is replaced by the mirage image. The raytracing model also clarifies how to quantify the mirage, and we provide expressions to calculate the angular extent of the mirage under given thermal conditions and measurement geometry.

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@misc{hagen2026raytracing,
  title = {{Raytracing and quantifying the inferior mirage}},
  author = {Nathan Hagen and Lucas Reyes Bentancor and Kakeru Tanaka and Norimasa Hanaya and Momo Shoda and Hiroki Maki and Takuma Ando and Keisaku Yoshizawa and Kayo Suzuki and Yume Yamada and Asana Kumakura},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = nov,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.09131},
  eprint = {2611.09131},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.09131},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - Raytracing and quantifying the inferior mirage
AU  - Nathan Hagen
AU  - Lucas Reyes Bentancor
AU  - Kakeru Tanaka
AU  - Norimasa Hanaya
AU  - Momo Shoda
AU  - Hiroki Maki
AU  - Takuma Ando
AU  - Keisaku Yoshizawa
AU  - Kayo Suzuki
AU  - Yume Yamada
AU  - Asana Kumakura
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/11/06
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.09131
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.09131
AB  - Using custom raytracing code, we explore several features of the inferior mirage that are not widely discussed, such as the blurring in the mirage image, and what happens to the light in the direct image region that is replaced by the mirage image. The raytracing model also clarifies how to quantify the mirage, and we provide expressions to calculate the angular extent of the mirage under given thermal conditions and measurement geometry.
ER  -