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Table 3
Calculated percentage contributions for major production processes of green and red-doublet emissions in the slit projected field of view on different comets, and the comparison of the calculated and observed line widths.
| Comet | hν + H2O | hν + CO2 | hν + CO | O(1S) → O(1D) | e + H2O+ |
e + CO |
5577 Line width | 6300 Line width | ||||||||||||||||
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| 116P/Wild 4 | 34 (72)* | 26 (2) | 7 (0.5) | (9) | 14 (13) | 14 (1) | 1.70 | – | 1.32 | – | ||||||||||||||
| C/2003 K4 (LINEAR) | 40 (81) | 31 (3) | 10 (1) | (8) | 6 (5) | 7 (0.5) | 2.05 | 2.38–2.76 | 1.87 | 1.81–2.12 | ||||||||||||||
| C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring) | 28 (72) | 37 (4) | 3 (0.5) | (10) | 9 (10) | 15 (1) | 2.04 | – | 1.44 | – | ||||||||||||||
| C/2006 W3 (Christensen) | 14 (61) | 47 (8) | 14 (3) | (16) | 3 (6) | 15 (3) | 2.48 | – | 1.58 | – | ||||||||||||||
| C/2009 P1 (Garradd) | 16 (55) | 31 (4) | 17 (3) | (13) | 10 (15) | 21 (3) | 1.85 | 2.16–2.54 | 1.25 | 1.25–1.67 | ||||||||||||||
| C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) | 8 (44) | 47(11) | 8 (2) | (22) | 4 (9) | 26 (6) | 2.30 | 2.31–2.55 | 1.65 | 2.39–2.75 | ||||||||||||||
| Comet X**** | 6 (36) | 46(11) | 6 (1) | (25) | 4 (10) | 31 (8) | 2.35 | – | 1.65 | – | ||||||||||||||
Notes.
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Obs: observed line widths are taken from Decock et al. (2013);
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