Submillimeter Continuum Observations of Comets

Details Submillimeter Continuum Observations of Comets Submillimeter Continuum Observations of Comets

Jan 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998stin...9925598j&link_type=abstract

Technical Report, Hawaii Univ. Honolulu, HI United States Institute for Astronomy

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Comets, Dust, Submillimeter Waves, Spectral Emission, Cometary Atmospheres, Comet Nuclei, Carbon Monoxide, Infrared Spectra, Continuous Spectra

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The aim of this proposal was to study the submillimeter continuum emission from comets. The study was based mainly on the exploitation of the world's leading submillimeter telescope, the JCMT (James Clerk Maxwell Telescope) on Mauna Kea. Submillimeter wavelengths provide a unique view of cometary physics for one main reason. The cometary size distribution is such that the scattering cross-section is dominated by small dust grains, while the mass is dominated by the largest particles. Submillimeter continuum radiation samples cometary particles much larger than those sampled by more common observations at shorter (optical and infrared) wavelengths and therefore provides a nearly direct measure of the cometary dust mass.

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