Physics
Scientific paper
May 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007icar..188..195l&link_type=abstract
Icarus, Volume 188, Issue 1, p. 195-211.
Physics
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Scientific paper
Images returned from the Deep Space 1 (DS-1) spacecraft during its encounter with Comet 19P/Borrelly are used to study its disk-integrated and disk-resolved photometry and its thermal properties. A disk-integrated phase function was constructed from a combination of DS-1 images and ground-based observations, giving a geometric albedo of 0.072±0.020 and a phase slope of 0.043 mag deg-1. The shape model of Borrelly [Kirk, R.L., Howington-Kraus, E., Soderblom, L.A., Giese, B., Oberst, J., 2004a. Icarus 167, 54 69] and the ephemerides of DS-1 were used to analyze the disk-resolved photometric data with Hapke's theoretical model. It was found that the surface of Borrelly displays large photometric heterogeneities in its photometric parameters. The single-scattering albedo, w, varies by a factor of 2.5 with an average of 0.057±0.009; the asymmetry factor, g, ranges from almost isotropic (-0.1) to strongly backscattering (-0.7) with an average of -0.43±0.07; the roughness parameter, θ¯, is less than 35° for most parts of surface but ranges up to 55° in some areas. Its average is 22°±5°. The observed 1-D temperature profile is modeled well by the standard thermal model (STM) for inactive regions and is found to be consistent with a very low thermal inertia. Water sublimation in the source region of the fan jet is observed to decrease the surface temperature from the STM predictions by 20 40 K. The source areas of two collimated jets could not be determined from either photometric model or thermal model. It is evident that the fan jet activity occurring on Borrelly's surface can be correlated to areas of relatively high albedo, weak backscattering, and high roughness.
A'Hearn Michael F.
Belton Michael J. S.
Li Jian-Yang
McFadden Lucy-Ann A.
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