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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 5.

The number of particles vs. grain radius (black lines). The number of grains is integrated across the whole tail in the direction perpendicular to the tail in the photometry aperture. The red lines are linear fit to the dust size distributions, and the power indices of the distribution functions are, for Tails A to H, −2.29, −1.97, −1.88, −1.78, −1.57, −2.11, −1.45, and −1.67, respectively.

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