1. Ensemble properties of comets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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Solontoi, Michael, Ivezić, Željko, Jurić, Mario, Becker, Andrew C., Jones, Lynne, West, Andrew A., Kent, Steve, Lupton, Robert H., Claire, Mark, Knapp, Gillian R., Quinn, Tom, Gunn, James E., and Schneider, Donald P.
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COMETS , *DUST , *ASTRONOMICAL photometry , *PARAMETER estimation , *POWER law (Mathematics) , *ASTRONOMICAL observations - Abstract
Abstract: We present the ensemble properties of 31 comets (27 resolved and 4 unresolved) observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This sample of comets represents about 1 comet per 10million SDSS photometric objects. Five-band (u, g, r, i, z) photometry is used to determine the comets’ colors, sizes, surface brightness profiles, and rates of dust production in terms of the Afρ formalism. We find that the cumulative luminosity function for the Jupiter Family Comets in our sample is well fit by a power law of the form N(
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- 2012
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