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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 7.

The average grain size, the integrated mass of each tail, and the radius of an equal-mass sphere. Each graph contains the following information: (1) the average grain size along the radial distance of the tail from the nucleus (black line); (2) the total mass of dust obtained by integrating the mass of particles along the radial distance of the tail from the nucleus (green line); and (3) the radius of an equal-mass sphere, where the mass is obtained by integrating the mass of particles along the radial distance of the tail from the nucleus (blue line).

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