A search for H2O and Ch4 in Comet Kohoutek |
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| Authors: | W.A. Traub N.P. Carleton |
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| Affiliation: | Center for Astrophysics, Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA |
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| Abstract: | A spectroscopic search for H2O and CH4 in Comet Kohoutek (1973f) was made using a Pepsios interferometer. No evidence was found for either molecule, allowing us to set an upper limit on their production rates (on about 21 January 1974) of Q(H2O) < 6.2 × 1028 sec?1 and Q(CH4) < 2.0 × 1030 sec?1. If the cometary surface is water-ice, this production rate leads to a product (1 ? A)·(πR02) < 2.2 km2, where A is the Bond albedo, R0 is the nuclear radius, and we assume that all the absorbed solar energy is used to evaporate H2O. |
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