An analysis of the spectrophotometric and photometric observations of comets 1967II, 1968I, 1968V, and 1968VI

✍ Scribed by Amaury A. Almeida

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 602 KB
• Volume: 53
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-0794
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00055947

✦ Synopsis

Emission fluxes of CN, Cz and C; carbon-bearing molecular species observed in the coma of comets Rudnicki (196711), Ikeya-Seki (19681). Whitaker-Thomas (1968V), and Honda (1968VI) are analysed in the framework of Haser model. CN, Cz and C; production rates are determined using recently derived fluorescence efficiencies. The dependence of CN. Cz and C3 production rates on the heliocentric distance and the possible correlations among these radicals is studied. It is shown that comets Ikeya-Seki (19681) and Honda (1968VI) have the same mean color indices (B-V) and (U-B).