An optimized detection technique for faint moving objects on a star-rich background: A search for the nucleus of comet 46P/Wirtanen

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 320, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 642-651

  Boehnhardt, H ^a   Babion, J ^a   West, R M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comets: general; 46p wirtanen; Methods: data analysis; observational

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000388235     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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