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Table 4:

Properties of the nuclei of the comets.
Comet $R_{\rm app}$(mag) $r_{\rm n}$ (km) (V-R) (B-V) (R-I)
Solar colors:     0.35 0.65 0.28
4P/Faye 20.12 $\pm$ 0.03 1.77 $\pm$ 0.04 0.45 $\pm$ 0.04 - -
10P/Tempel 2 14.77 $\pm$ 0.03 5.98 $\pm$ 0.04* 0.49 $\pm$ 0.03 0.80 $\pm$ 0.02 0.52 $\pm$ 0.03
17P/Holmes 20.61 $\pm$ 0.04 1.71 $\pm$ 0.07 0.56 $\pm$ 0.02 - -
37P/Forbes 20.83 $\pm$ 0.04 0.81 $\pm$ 0.04 0.29 $\pm$ 0.03 - 0.66 $\pm$ 0.06
44P/Reinmuth 2 19.83 $\pm$ 0.05 1.61 $\pm$ 0.07 0.62 $\pm$ 0.08 - -
50P/Arend 20.58 $\pm$ 0.04 0.95 $\pm$ 0.03 0.81 $\pm$ 0.10 - 0.26 $\pm$ 0.09
59P/Kearns-Kwee 20.86 $\pm$ 0.05 0.79 $\pm$ 0.03 0.62 $\pm$ 0.07 - 0.27 $\pm$ 0.08
63P/Wild 1 19.17 $\pm$ 0.02 1.46 $\pm$ 0.03 0.50 $\pm$ 0.05 - 0.42 $\pm$ 0.04
71P/Clark 21.83 $\pm$ 0.07 0.68 $\pm$ 0.04 0.64 $\pm$ 0.07 - -
84P/Giclas 20.59 $\pm$ 0.04 0.90 $\pm$ 0.05 0.32 $\pm$ 0.03 - -
106P/Schuster 18.91 $\pm$ 0.03 0.94 $\pm$ 0.03 0.52 $\pm$ 0.06 1.01 $\pm$ 0.06 0.45 $\pm$ 0.06
112P/Urata-Niijima 20.96 $\pm$ 0.04 0.90 $\pm$ 0.05 0.53 $\pm$ 0.04 - -
114P/Wiseman-Skiff 19.73 $\pm$ 0.04 0.78 $\pm$ 0.05 0.46 $\pm$ 0.02 0.85 $\pm$ 0.03 0.54 $\pm$ 0.02
$R_{\rm app}$: apparent magnitude of the nucleus in the Johnson-Kron-Cousins photometric system.
$r_{\rm n}$: effective radius of the nucleus assuming pR = 0.04, $\beta = 0.040$ mag/deg except 10P/Tempel 2 (V-R), (B-V), (R-I): color indices.
*using pR = 0.024 as measured independently.

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