Determining the dust environment of an unknown comet for a spacecraft flyby: The case of ESA’s Comet Interceptor mission

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Fig. 10

Dust production rate as a function of Afρ and the power law exponent, β, of the dust size distribution. The values of Afρ are slightly offset depending on the power law exponent to show the overlap resulting from β. By itself Afρ is a poor predictor of the dust production rate of a comet.

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