The spectrum of Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1) observed with the infrared space observatory at 2.9 astronomical units from the sun

Science

Volumn 275, Issue 5308, 1997, Pages 1904-1907

  Crovisier, Jacques ^a   Leech, Kieron ^a   Bockelée Morvan, Dominique ^a   Brooke, Timothy Y ^a   Hanner, Martha S ^a   Altieri, Bruno ^a   Keller, H Uwe ^a   Lellouch, Emmanuel ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; ETHANE; ICE; MAGNESIUM; METHANOL; SILICATE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DUST; FLUORESCENCE; INFRARED RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUN;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; COSMIC DUST; ICE; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; METEOROIDS; SILICATES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; COMET HALE-BOPP; COMETARY NUCLEUS; VOLATILE;

EID: 0030620510     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5308.1904     Document Type: Article

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50. This study was based on observations with ISO, a European Space Agency (ESA) project with instruments funded by ESA Member States (especially the principal investigator countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom) and with participation of ISAS and NASA. The ISOPHOT data presented in this paper were reduced using PIA (Interactive Analysis Package), which is a joint development by the ESA Astrophysics Division and the ISOPHOT consortium led by the Max Planck Institute für Astronomie, Heidelberg. We thank P. Rocher and the Bureau des longitudes, Paris, for providing ephemeris of the comet.