SOHO/LASCO observation of an outburst of comet 2P/Encke at its 2000 perihelion passage

Icarus

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 142-149

  Lamy, Phillipe ^a   Biesecker, D A ^b   Groussin, O ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

2P Encke; Comets; Nucleus; Photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037842806     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00040-X     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. A'Hearn, M.F., Millis, R.L., Thompson, D.T., 1983. The disappearance of OH from Comet P/Encke. Icarus 55, 250-258.
2. A'Hearn, M.F., Millis, R.L., Schleicher, D.G., Osip, D.J., Birch, P.V., 1995. The ensemble properties of comets: results from narrowband photometry of 85 comets, 1976-1992. Icarus 118, 223-270.
3. Barker, E.S., Cochran, A.L., Rybski, P.M. 1981. Observations of faint comets at McDonald Observatory: 1978-1980. Mod. Obs. Techniques Comets 150-155.
4. Bertaux, J.-L., and 24 colleagues, 1995. SWAN: a study of solar wind anisotropies on SOHO with Lyα sky mapping. Sol. Phys. 162, 403-439.
5. Biesecker, D.A., Lamy, P.L., St. Cyr, O.C., Llebaria, A., Howard, R.A., 2002. Sungrazing comets discovered with the SOHO/LASCO coronograph 1996-1998. Icarus 157, 323-348.
6. Brueckner, G.E., and 14 colleagues, 1995. The Large Angle Spectroscopic Coronagraph (LASCO). Sol. Phys. 162, 357-402.
7. Domingo, V., Fleck, B., Poland, A.I., 1995. The SOHO Mission: an overview. Sol. Phys. 162, 1-37.
8. Epifani, E., Colangeli, L., Fulle, M., Brucato, J.R., Bussoletti, E., de Sanctis, M.C., Mennella, V., Palomba, E., Palumbo, P., Rotundi, A., 2001. ISOCAM imaging of Comets 103P/Hartley 2 and 2P/Encke. Icarus 149, 339-350.
9. Fernández, Y.R., Lisse, C.M., Ulrich Käufl, H., Peschke, S.B., Weaver, H.A., A'Hearn, M.F., Lamy, P.P., Livengood, T.A., Kostiuk, T., 2000. Physical properties of the nucleus of Comet 2P/Encke. Icarus 147, 145-160.
10. Festou, M.C., Barale, O., 2000. The asymmetric coma of comets. I. Asymmetric outgassing from the nucleus of Comet 2P/Encke. Astron. J. 119, 3119-3132.
11. Fink, U., Hicks, M.D., 1996. A survey of 39 comets using CCD spectroscopy. Astrophys. J. 459, 729-743.
12. Fulle, M., 1990. Meteoroids from short period comets. Astron. Astrophys. 230, 220-226.
13. Haken, M., A'Hearn, M.F., Feldman, P.D., Budzien, S.A. 2003. Secular variation of activity in Comets 2P/Encke and 9P/Tempel 1. Submitted to Icarus.
14. Kamél, L., 1991. The evolution of P/Encke's light curve - no secular fading, a vanishing perihelion asymmetry. Icarus 93, 226-245.
15. Kohl, J.L., and 39 colleagues, 1995. The Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. Sol. Phys. 162, 313-356.
16. Kresák, L., 1965. The effects of commensurability in the system of short-periodic comets. Bull. Astron. Inst. Czecho. 16, 292.
17. Lamy, P.L., Toth, I., Jorda, L., Weaver, H.A., A'Hearn, M., 1998. The nucleus and inner coma of Comet 46P/Wirtanen. Astron. Astrophys. 335, L25-29.
18. Mäkinen, J.T.T., Silén, J., Schmidt, W., Kyrölä, E., Summanen, T., Bertaux, J.-L., Quémerais, E., Lallement, R., 2001. Water production of Comets 2P/Encke and 81P/Wild 2 derived from SWAN observations during the 1997 apparition. Icarus 152, 268-274.
19. Probstein, R. 1968. Problems of Hydrodynamics and Continuum Mechanic. Ed. M.A. Levrent'ev (Philadelphia: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publication). p. 568.
20. Raymond, J.C., Uzzo, M., Ko, Y.-K., Mancuso, S., Wu, R., Gardner, L., Kohl, J.L., Marsden, B., Smith, P.L., 2002. Far-ultraviolet observations of Comet 2P/Encke at perihelion. Astrophys. J. 1564, 1054-1060.
21. Sekanina, Z., 1964. Secular variations in the absolute brightness of short-period comets. Bull. Astron. Inst. Czech. 15, 1.
22. Sekanina, Z., 1988. Outgassing asymmetry of periodic Comet Encke. I - Apparitions 1924-1984. Astron. J. 95, 911-924.