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Table 7

Spectral reflectivity gradient (reddening) of cometary comae and nuclei.

COMETARY COMAE

Comet Spectral range [nm] Reddeninga [% / kÅ] Reference

32P/Comas Solá 525–590 2.54  ±  0.57 this paper
525–775 1.54  ±  0.49 this paper
56P/Slaughter-Burnham 525–590 2.46  ±  0.80 this paper
78P/Gehrels 2 525–590 1.88  ±  0.75 this paper
525–775 0.72  ±  1.45 this paper
43P/Wolf-Harrington 544–641 0.34* Lowry & Fitzsimmons (2005)
46P/Wirtanen 540–670 8.3 Lamy et al. (1998)

COMETARY NUCLEI

143P/Kushida-Muramatsu 544–641 3.75* Lowry & Fitzsimmons (2005)
133P/Elst-Pizarro 544–641  − 1.29* Lowry & Fitzsimmons (2005)
1P/Halley visual range 6  ±  3 Thomas & Keller (1989)
10P/Tempel 2 visual range 20  ±  3 Jewitt & Luu (1989)
49P/Arend-Rigaux visual range  − 2.1 Fitzsimmons et al. (1994)
82P/Gehrels 3 visual range 13.3  ±  0.1 De Sanctis et al. (2000)
28P/Neujimin 1 visual range 10.3  ±  3.0 Campins et al. (2007)
162P/Siding Spring visual range 9.2  ±  1.0 Campins et al. (2007)

Notes.

(a)

Values marked with

*

have been derived by us using measured Afρ data in Eq. (4).

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