Title

R- And J-Band Photometry Of Comets 2P/Encke And 9P/Tempel 1

Keywords

Comets; Photometry; Spectrophotometry

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. © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

3-1-2006

Publication Title

Icarus

Volume

181

Issue

1

Number of Pages

156-161

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2005.09.017

Socpus ID

33344457808 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33344457808

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