Imaging polarimetry of Comet 9P/Tempel before and after the Deep Impact

Icarus

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 454-458

  Furusho, Reiko ^a   Ikeda, Yuji ^b   Kinoshita, Daisuke ^c   Ip, Wing Huen ^c   Kawakita, Hideyo ^d   Kasuga, Toshihiro ^e   Sato, Yusuke ^f   Lin, Hung Chin ^c   Chang, Ming Shin ^c   Lin, Zhong Yi ^c   Watanabe, Jun ichi ^e  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Photocoding   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d KYOTO SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^f HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comet Tempel 1; Comets; dust; Polarimetry; The Deep Impact

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548620470     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.03.036     Document Type: Article

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