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Title:
Post-perihelion SWAS Observations of Water Vapor in the Coma of Comet C/1999 H1 (Lee)
Authors:
Chiu, Kuenley; Neufeld, David A.; Bergin, Edwin A.; Melnick, Gary J.; Patten, Brian M.; Wang, Zhong; Bockelée-Morvan, Dominique
Affiliation:
AA(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. ), AB(Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland), AC(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts), AD(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts), AE(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts), AF(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts), AG(Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Meudon, France)
Publication:
Icarus, Volume 154, Issue 2, pp. 345-349 (2001). (Icarus Homepage)
Publication Date:
12/2001
Origin:
AP
DOI:
10.1006/icar.2001.6706
Bibliographic Code:
2001Icar..154..345C

Abstract

We have monitored the 110-101 pure rotational transition of water vapor near 557 GHz toward Comet C/1999 H1 (Lee) over the period 1999 September 5 through 1999 December 8, using the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite. The measured antenna temperatures implied water production rates that declined from 3.2×1028s-1 on 1999 September 5-8 to 1.2×1028s-1 on 1999 September 25-28. No statistically significant detections of water emission were obtained after 1999 September 28. These post-perihelion observations are consistent with a steady decline in the water production rate, Q(H2O), with increasing heliocentric distance, Rh, that can be fit with a power law Q(H2O)=1.45×1029(Rh/AU)- 5.5s-1 over the range Rh=1.3-1.7 AU. .
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