Title of article
Updated results of a search for main-belt comets using the Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey
Author/Authors
Gilbert، نويسنده , , Alyssa M. and Wiegert، نويسنده , , Paul A.، نويسنده ,
Issue Information
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
Pages
2
From page
998
To page
999
Abstract
The results of a search for main-belt comets using Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey data are updated. The remaining observations in the Very Wide segment of data, taken in the g’ or r’ filters, are visually inspected for cometary activity. The number of main-belt objects in the original and new data sets are 11,438 and 13,802, respectively, giving a total number of 25,240. This is the largest, and least biased, search for main-belt comets to date. One object is observed to show cometary activity, and a new upper limit for strongly active main-belt comets is derived to be 40 ± 18.
Keywords
Asteroids , comets
Journal title
Icarus
Serial Year
2010
Journal title
Icarus
Record number
2378058
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