Properties of the nuclei and comae of 13 ecliptic comets from Hubble Space Telescope snapshot observations

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Volume 508 / No 2 (December III 2009)

A&A, 508 2 (2009) 1045-1056

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Table 5:

Properties of the comae of the comets: $Af\rho$ .
Comet	Year of	$r_{\rm h}$	$\alpha$	$\lambda$ or band	$Af\rho$	Remark
	perihelion	(AU)	( $^\circ$ )	(nm)	(cm)
4P/Faye	1991	1.78^I	15.5	524	380	AH+95
	1991	1.60^I	6.0	R	890	L+96
	1991	1.59^O	19.3	R	660	L+96
	2000	2.96^O	5.6	R	129 $\pm$ 6	This work
	2000	3.45^O	16.8	R	43.7 $\pm$ 3	LoW03
10P/Tempel 2	1988	1.78^I	20.3	524	20	AH+95
	1988	1.72^I	19.8	295	<40	FF91
	1988	1.72^I	20.3	684	17	AH+89
	1999	1.67^I	12.8	R	88 $\pm$ 4	This work
	1988	1.69^O	33.3	295	140	FF91
17P/Holmes	2000	3.12^I	8.5	R	20 $\pm$ 1	This work
37P/Forbes	1999	2.27^O	14.8	R	37 $\pm$ 2	This work
44P/Reinmuth 2	2001	4.73^I	10.3	R	$\leq$ 2.3	LF+01
	2001	4.26^I	12.7	R	$\leq$ 11.4	Lo+03
	2001	2.73^I	5.3	R	86 $\pm$ 1	This work
50P/Arend	1999	2.37^O	11.8	670	58 $\pm$ 3	This work
	1999	2.96^O	19.1	R	9.4 $\pm$ 2	LoW03
59P/Kearns-Kwee	1981	2.24^I	21.4	524	68	AH+95
	1999	2.52^O	3.3	R	112 $\pm$ 6	This work
63P/Wild 1	1999	2.27^O	9.2	R	14 $\pm$ 7	This work
71P/Clark	2000	4.40^I	8.2	R	$\leq$ 2.2	LF+01
	2000	2.72^I	7.5	R	68 $\pm$ 1	This work
84P/Giclas	1999	2.21^O	16.9	R	60 $\pm$ 3	This work
106P/Schuster	1999	1.67^I	23.0	R	103 $\pm$ 5	This work
112P/Urata-Niijima	2000	2.30^I	19.2	R	5 $\pm$ 1	This work
114P/Wiseman-Skiff	2000	1.57^O	33.2	R	43 $\pm$ 2	This work

$r_{\rm h}$ : heliocentric distance.
I: inbound or O: outbound in the orbit.
$\alpha$ : solar phase angle.
$\lambda$ : wavelength.
AH+89: A'Hearn et al. (1989).
AH+95: A'Hearn et al. (1995).
FF91: IUE observations by Feldman & Festou (1992).
L+96: Lamy et al. (1996).
LF01: Lowry & Fitzsimmons (2001).
Lo+03: Lowry et al. (2003).
LoW03: Lowry & Weissman (2003).

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