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Title: Deep Impact, Stardust-NExT and the behavior of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 from 1997 to 2010
Authors: Meech, K. J
Pittichova, J
Yang, B
Zenn, A
Belton, M. J. S
A’Hearn, M. F
Bagnulo, S
Bai, J
Barrera, L
Bauer, J. M
Bedient, J
Bhatt, B. C
Boehnhardt, H
Brosch, N
Buie, M
Candia, P
Chen, W
Chesley, S
Chiang, P
Choi, Y
Cochran, A
Duddy, S
Farnham, T. L
Fernández, Y
Gutiérrez, P
Hainaut, O. R
Hampton, D
Herrmann, K
Hsieh, H
Kadooka, M. A
Kaluna, H
Keane, J
Kim, M
Kleyna, J
Krisciunas, K
Lauer, T. R
Lara, L
Licandro, J
Lowry, S. C
McFadden, L. A
Moskovitz, N
Mueller, B. E. A
Polishook, D
Raja, N. S
Riesen, T
Sahu, D. K
Samarasinha, N. H
Sarid, G
Sekiguchi, T
Sonnett, S
Suntzeff, N
Taylor, B
Tozzi, G. P
Vasundhara, R
Vincent, J
Wasserman, L
Webster-Schultz, B
Zhao, H
Keywords: Comet Tempel 1
Comets, Nucleus
Comets, Dust
Photometry
Ices
Issue Date: May-2011
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Citation: Icarus, Vol. 213, No. 1, pp. 323–344
Abstract: We present observational data for Comet 9P/Tempel 1 taken from 1997 through 2010 in an international collaboration in support of the Deep Impact and Stardust-NExT missions. The data were obtained to characterize the nucleus prior to the Deep Impact 2005 encounter, and to enable us to understand the rotation state in order to make a time of arrival adjustment in February 2010 that would allow us to image at least 25% of the nucleus seen by the Deep Impact spacecraft to better than 80 m/pixel, and to image the crater made during the encounter, if possible. In total, not, vert, similar500 whole or partial nights were allocated to this project at 14 observatories worldwide, utilizing 25 telescopes. Seventy percent of these nights yielded useful data. The data were used to determine the linear phase coefficient for the comet in the R-band to be 0.045 ± 0.001 mag deg−1 from 1° to 16°. Cometary activity was observed to begin inbound near r not, vert, similar 4.0 AU and the activity ended near r not, vert, similar 4.6 AU as seen from the heliocentric secular light curves, water-sublimation models and from dust dynamical modeling. The light curve exhibits a significant pre- and post-perihelion brightness and activity asymmetry. There was a secular decrease in activity between the 2000 and 2005 perihelion passages of not, vert, similar20%. The post-perihelion light curve cannot be easily explained by a simple decrease in solar insolation or observing geometry. CN emission was detected in the comet at 2.43 AU pre-perihelion, and by r = 2.24 AU emission from C2 and C3 were evident. In December 2004 the production rate of CN increased from 1.8 × 1023 mol s−1 to QCN = 2.75 × 1023 mol s−1 in early January 2005 and 9.3 × 1024 mol s−1 on June 6, 2005 at r = 1.53 AU.
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2248/5486
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