Infrared Imaging Polarimetry of Comet Hale-Bopp

Details Infrared Imaging Polarimetry of Comet Hale-Bopp Infrared Imaging Polarimetry of Comet Hale-Bopp

Dec 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997aas...191.7201j&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 191st AAS Meeting, #72.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, p.1318

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Imaging polarimetry at 1.55, 1.70 and 2.2 mu m and photometric imaging at 3.12 and 3.8 mu m of comet Hale-Bopp are presented. Considerable structure is seen in the fractional polarization map of the inner coma. The percent polarization is clearly higher in the jet material than in the general coma. The polarization is highest at the leading edge of the jet. The simplest interpretation is that the dust in the jet contains significantly smaller dust particles than the dust lifting off of the general surface of the nucleus and that the smallest dust particles are accelerated out ahead of the larger dust particles.

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