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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 549, Issue 1, Pages 635-646Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/319039
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comets : general; comets : individual (Hale-Bopp 1995 O1); dust, extinction
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We present 1.2-18.3 mum photometry of comet 1995 01 (Hale-Bopp). Our observations spanned nearly 4 months pre- and post-perihelion. The dust grain size-dependent parameters of superheat, 10 mum silicate excess, and albedo are used to make determinations about the Hale-Bopp coma grain population. The evolution of the coma grain size distribution is tracked by measuring these parameters over a range of heliocentric distances. We also observed several regions in the Hale-Bopp coma revealing significant gradients in the measured color temperature suggesting differences in the dust grain size distribution. Finally, we compare the grain size-dependent parameters to those of 11 other bright comets. The extreme values of these parameters displayed by Hale-Bopp suggest it had a smaller mean dust grain size than those associated with the other comets.
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