R- and J-band photometry of Comets 2P/Encke and 9P/Tempel 1

    Authors

    C. W. Hergenrother; B. E. A. Mueller; H. Campins; N. H. Samarasinha;D. W. McCarthy

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Icarus

    Keywords

    comets; photometry; spectrophotometry; OUTER SOLAR-SYSTEM; STANDARD STARS; KUIPER-BELT; 2060 CHIRON; NUCLEUS; P/TEMPEL-2; APHELION; OBJECT; ENCKE; Astronomy & Astrophysics

    Abstract

    Near-simultaneous R- and J-band photometric measurements of the short-period Comets 2P/Encke and the Deep Impact mission target 9P/Tempel 1 were obtained. The resulting R-J colors are +0.82 +/- 0.08 mag and +1.46 +/- 0.13 mag for Encke and Tempel 1, respectively. Tempel 1's color is redder than the solar R-J color index of +0.76. The Tempel 1 observations directly detected the nucleus while the Encke observations likely suffered from coma contamination. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

    Journal Title

    Icarus

    Volume

    181

    Issue/Number

    1

    Publication Date

    1-1-2006

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    156

    Last Page

    161

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000236081900009

    ISSN

    0019-1035

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