Bibcode
Moreno, F.; Cabrera-Lavers, A.; Vaduvescu, O.; Licandro, J.; Pozuelos, F.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 770, Issue 2, article id. L30, 6 pp. (2013).
Fecha de publicación:
6
2013
Número de citas
23
Número de citas referidas
22
Descripción
The Main-Belt Comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS) has been imaged using the 10.4
m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope at
six epochs in the period from 2012 November to 2013 February, with the
aim of monitoring its dust environment. The dust tails' brightness and
morphology are best interpreted in terms of a model of sustained dust
emission spanning four to six months. The total dust mass ejected is
estimated at ~6-25 × 106 kg. We assume a
time-independent power-law size distribution function, with particles in
the micrometer to centimeter size range. Based on the quality of the
fits to the isophote fields, an anisotropic emission pattern is favored
against an isotropic one, in which the particle ejection is concentrated
toward high latitudes (±45° to ±90°) in a
high-obliquity object (I = 80°). This seasonally driven ejection
behavior, along with the modeled particle ejection velocities, are in
remarkable agreement to those we found for P/2010 R2 (La Sagra).
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