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Active Asteroid 311P/PanSTARRS: Rotational Instability as the Origin of its Multitails?

  • Authors: Bin Liu, Xiaodong Liu, Xiaoyu Jia, Fei Li, Yuhui Zhao, LiangLiang Yu

Bin Liu et al 2023 The Astronomical Journal 166 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

Surface brightness profiles of dust tails that are normalized to the brightness of the nucleus from 2013 September to December. The dust tail (Tail I) observed on 2014 February 11 is not considered due to its low S/N. The upper and lower horizontal axes show the radial distance from the nucleus in units of the radiation pressure parameter β and arcseconds, respectively.

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