Bibcode
Serra-Ricart, M.; Licandro, J.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 814, Issue 1, article id. 49, 7 pp. (2015).
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2015
Journal
Citations
3
Refereed citations
2
Description
C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) was observed around perihelion (2015 January 30) on
15 nights between 2015 January 21 and February 11 using the TADer 0.3-m
astrograph telescope at Teide Observatory (IAC, Tenerife, Spain). Two
large spiral jet structures were observed over several cometary
rotations. A new method of searching for periodicities in the PA of
spiral jets in the coma region at a fixed distance (20,624 km) from the
cometary optocenter is presented and used to determine a nuclear
rotation period of 17.89 ± 0.17 hr.
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