Title

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

Authors

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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