Deuterium in comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp): Detection of DCN

Science

Volumn 279, Issue 5357, 1998, Pages 1707-1710

  Meier, Roland ^a,e   Owen, Tobias C ^a,e   Jewitt, David C ^a,e   Matthews, Henry E ^a,b   Senay, Matthew ^c,e   Biver, Nicolas ^a   Bockelée Morvan, Dominique ^d   Crovisier, Jacques ^d   Gautier, Daniel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^e James Clerk Maxwell Telescope   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEUTERIUM; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; WATER;

COMET HALE-BOPP; COMETARY ICE; DEUTERATED HYDROGEN CYANIDE; INTERSTELLAR CLOUD;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

DEUTERIUM; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; ICE; METEOROIDS; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

MAUNA;

EID: 0032513360     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5357.1707     Document Type: Article

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42. We thank the operators of the JCMT for their assistance, B. Marsden and D. Tholen for help with the ephemerides, and P. Eberhardt for valuable comments on the manuscript. Supported by NASA grants NAEW 2650 and NAEW 2631. D.C.J. acknowledges support from NSF grant AST96-15603, The JCMT is operated by the Joint Astronomy Centre on behalf of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, and the National Research Council of Canada.