Table 1: Water production rate measurements of 46P/Wirtanen.
  Bertaux et al. (1999) Fink et al. (1998) Farnham et al. (1998) Stern et al. (1998)
Instrument SOHO-SWAN 1.54 m Catalina 1.1 m and 0.8 m at Lowell Obs. HST-FOS
Method Ly-$\alpha$ OI1D (6300 Å) OHa OH
Model Haser Haser A'Hearn (1995) Vectorial (Festou 1981)
$r_{\rm h}$ range (pre) 1.52-1.07 1.22-1.07 1.14-1.08 2.72-1.31
$r_{\rm h}$ range (post) 1.07-1.35 1.08-1.47 none none
Accuracy 25% 20% See footnote b See footnote b
$^{\rm a}$ We derived $Q_{\rm {H_2O}}$ using $Q_{\rm {H_2O}}=1.3\times Q_{\rm {OH}}$, as suggested by the authors.
$^{\rm b}$ The accuracy depends on each water production rate measurement (see Fig. 1).

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