Observations of faint comets with the IUE

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Jun 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982lastr..96..299f&link_type=abstract

L'Astronomie, vol. 96, June 1982, p. 299-302. In French.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Comets, Iue, Molecular Spectra, Ultraviolet Spectra, Water, Water Splitting

Scientific paper

Spectral observations of eight comets, including seven periodic comets, made in the range 1150-3400 A with the IUE satellite are presented. Comet Bradfield, the sole nonperiodic comet observed, is found to exhibit strong OH and atomic hydrogen emissions from the decomposition of water, along with oxygen, carbon, sulfur, carbon disulfide, C2 and CO2(plus) emissions and a faint continuum due to dust at longer wavelengths. Comets Encke, Tuttle and Stefan-Oterma appear to have identical spectra in the UV, showing evidence of much gas, little dust and few ions (only CO2(plus) detected), and differing from comet Bradfield only in the lack of C2 emission. All eight comets observed by IUE, including Seargent, Meier, Borrelly and Panther, had the same chemical composition, consisting mainly of water with a few per mil or per cent CN, C2, C3 and CS. The water production rates of the periodic comets range from levels 6 times less to 11 times more than that of Comet Bradfield, which may be related to nuclear size or cometary age.

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