New measures of the orientation of the linear structure in the sunward hemisphere of the coma of Comet 19P/Borrelly: apparitions of 1994, 2001, and 2008

Details New measures of the orientation of the linear structure in the sunward hemisphere of the coma of Comet 19P/Borrelly: apparitions of 1994, 2001, and 2008 New measures of the orientation of the linear structure in the sunward hemisphere of the coma of Comet 19P/Borrelly: apparitions of 1994, 2001, and 2008

Feb 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011an....332..116p&link_type=abstract

Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.332, Issue 2, p.116

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Comets: General, Comets: Individual (19P/Borrelly)

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The sky-projected orientation (position angle) of the axis (line of maximum density or maximum brightness) of the long time-known, linear structure (LS) in the sunward hemisphere of the coma of Comet 19P/Borrelly is measured on 45 photographs taken by different observers under different projection conditions and covering three consecutive apparitions (1994, 2001, and 2008) for a total time interval of 5174 days. The analysis of the results by a tomographic approach yields an LS axis constantly oriented towards a fixed point in the space, at Right Ascension 214.4° ± 0.5° and Declination -7.0° ± 0.5° (J2000), corresponding to an obliquity of 103.5° ± 1o and an orbital longitude of 147.2° ± 1o, throughout the relevant interval. Such coordinates are close to the ones found by other authors for the spatial orientation of the nucleus spin axis during the apparitions of 1994 and 2001. In the hypothesis of an LS orientation aligned with the nucleus spin axis, the new results confirm the previous ones and show that this orientation remained unchanged during the subsequent 2008 apparition. abstract

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