Computer Science
Scientific paper
Sep 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008icar..197..183b&link_type=abstract
Icarus, Volume 197, Issue 1, p. 183-202.
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
Three continuum images of Comet C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) obtained on Nov 10, Nov 19, and Dec 03, 2001, are analyzed with the aid of a dynamical model, i.e. with a model that uses the size-dependent motion of dust grains under solar radiation pressure to determine the dust size distribution and its temporal change. The frames are photometrically calibrated in terms of the albedo filling factor product. On Nov 20.2 the Earth transited the orbital plane of the comet and an anti-tail was recognized in the image of Nov 19. For the determination of the particle fluxes describing the contribution of monodisperse particle shells to the cometary brightness the model uses a new regularization method employing Chebyshev polynomials of selected orders in emission time and particle size. It guarantees positiveness of the particle fluxes and imposes a varying degree of smoothness on their dependence on particle size and emission time. The particle emission velocities are still derived by trial and error. The dynamical model is described in detail. Results are presented for several low orders of the Chebyshev polynomials and are compared in order to understand the limitations imposed by the regularization process. The size distributions derived from the different observations do not always agree. This is particularly true for the earliest and most recent synchrones contributing to an image. In the observations of Nov 10 and Dec 03, i.e. excluding the anti-tail image, the integrated mass loss strongly decreases in the most recent time steps of the model although the comet is still approaching the Sun. This is interpreted as an artifact introduced by the overlap of the shells of large particle size emitted shortly before the observation. The model derives an increasing number of small particles released by the comet in the second half of November. This is at least in part considered as real and attributed to particle fragmentation occurring when the comet was at a heliocentric distance of about 1.4 AU.
Bonev Tanyu
Jockers Klaus
Karpov Nikolay
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