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THE NEOWISE-DISCOVERED COMET POPULATION AND THE CO + CO2 PRODUCTION RATES

  • Authors: James M. Bauer, Rachel Stevenson, Emily Kramer, A. K. Mainzer, Tommy Grav, Joseph R. Masiero, Yan R. Fernández, Roc M. Cutri, John W. Dailey, Frank J. Masci, Karen J. Meech, Russel Walker, C. M. Lisse, Paul R. Weissman, Carrie R. Nugent, Sarah Sonnett, Nathan Blair, Andrew Lucas, Robert S. McMillan, and Edward L. Wright

2015 The Astrophysical Journal 814 85.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

Discovery images of WISE/NEOWISE comets shown in 3-colors. The prime mission comets have the 22 μm image mapped to the image's red channel, the 12 μm image mapped to green, and the 4.6 μm image mapped to blue. The comets for which the activity, and not the object, were discovered by NEOWISE are shown with blue labels, in the upper left. In the case of the four comets discovered to date by the NEOWISE Reactivation (yellow text labels, on the bottom row), the 4.6 μm image is mapped to red, and the 3.4 μm image to both green and blue. The images are 6 arcmin on a side. The comets span a wide range of morphologies and activity levels; over half are LPCs.

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