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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2011-08-24
    Description: 3-micron and 10-micron spectra and IR photometry of the dynamically new Comet Austin 1990 V were obtained for March-May 1990. An unusual 9-11 micron emission feature 15-20 percent above the continuum is evident at 0.78 AU postperihelion. The shape, in particular a peak at 11.06 micron, differs from that seen in Halley and several other comets, suggesting a difference in the mineralogy of the silicate grains. The 3.1-7.7 micron spectrum at 0.35 AU shows no obvious feature; feature/continuum contrast of the 3.36 micron emission feature is less than about 5 percent. Based on the IR photometry and a dust model weighted toward small grains, the dust production rate on 6 May at 0.78 AU was about 3 x 10 exp 5 g/s. The corresponding dust/gas mass ratio was about 0.1, classifying Austin as a dust-poor comet. This designation refers only to the relative dust cross section, not to the total mass.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035); 101; 1; p. 64-70.
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    Publication Date: 2004-12-03
    Description: We examine the infrared emission of the Herbig Ae/Be stars and show that some possess characteristics indicative of partially crystalline grains similar to those seen in Beta Pictoris and some solar system comets.
    Keywords: Astronomy
    Type: From Stardust to Planetesimals: Contributed Papers; 19-22; NASA-CP-3343
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2011-08-24
    Description: Thermal IR spectrophotometry of Comet P/Brorsen-Metcalf near perihelion was obtained during August 28-September 6, 1989, by the NASA IRTF; these data are presently compared with results for Comet P/Halley. The spectra, which lacked silicate emission, are consistent with 400-430 K grey body emission. The grains are on these bases inferred to have been larger than typical for either new comets or P/Halley. Attention is given to the composition, mass, temperature, and character of the cometary dust in view of Comet P/Halley study results.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035); 97; 2, Ju; 269-275
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-24
    Description: The results are reported of IR spectroscopy of Comet Levy 1990 XX over a three-day period when the comet was about 1.54 AU from the sun roughly 70 days before perihelion. Comet Levy 1990 XX was bright, and for at least part of its inbound journey toward perihelion, active. At a distance of 1.54 AU from the sun it showed strong structured silicate emission with peaks or shoulders at 9.8 and 11.2 microns. These features resemble those of Comets P/Halley and Bradfield 1987 XXIX. The comet was variable in brightness. Specifically, the contrast of the silicate features changed by a factor of two relative to the continuum level and showed some evidence for a shape change as well.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035); 100; 1; p. 197-202.
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-23
    Description: A 10 micron silicate emission feature has been discovered in the spectra of comets P/BorrelIy and P/Faye at R approximately 1.5 AU. These are the first short period comets in which silicate emission has definitely been detected. The broad emission features are about 25% above the continuum. No emission feature was present in the spectrum of P/Schaumasse; it is possible that the nucleus of P/Schaumasse was directly detected. If all of the observed flux originated from the nucleus, then the effective radius is about 3 km; the observed color temperature is consistent with a rapidly rotating nucleus. We present models that show how the shape of the silicate feature can depend on the way in which silicate and absorbing material are mixed in the grains.
    Keywords: Astronomy
    Type: ICARUS (ISSN 0019-1035); Volume 124; Article No. 0209; 344-351
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-19
    Description: Twenty-three transient interplanetary shocks observed near earth during 1978-1982, and mostly reported in the literature, have also been identified at the Pioneer Venus Orbiter spacecraft. There seems to be a fairly consistent trend for lower shock speeds, farther from the sun. Shock normals obtained using the Pioneer Venus data correspond well with published values from near earth. By referring to the portion of the Pioneer Venus plasma data used here from locations at longitudes within 37 deg of earth, it is found that shocks are weaker at earth, compared with those closer to the sun.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227); 92; 3385-339
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-23
    Description: The magnetic flux content of the Jovian magnetosphere is set by the internal dynamo, but those magnetic field lines are constantly being loaded by heavy ions at the orbit of lo and dragged inexorably outward by the centrifugal force. Vasyliunas has proposed a steady state reconnecting magnetospheric model that sheds plasma islands of zero net magnetic flux and returns nearly empty flux tubes to the inner magnetosphere. The Galileo observations indicate that beyond 40 Rj the current sheet begins to tear and beyond 50 Rj on the nightside explosively reconnects as the tearing site reaches the low density lobe region above and below the current sheet. Small events occur irregularly but on average about every 4 hours and large events about once a day. The magnetic flux reconnected in such events amounts up to about 70,000 Webers/sec and is sufficient to return the outwardly convected magnetic flux to the inner magnetosphere. Since this process releases plasmoids into the jovian tail, as do terrestrial substorms; since this process involves explosive reconnection across the current sheet on the nightside of the planet, as do terrestrial substorms; and since the process is a key in closing the circulation pattern of the magnetic and plasma flux, as it is in terrestrial substorms; we refer to these events as jovian substorms.
    Keywords: Astronomy
    Type: Advanced Space Research (ISSN 0273-1177); Volume 26; No. 10; 1499-1504
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 2011-08-17
    Description: Spectrophotometric observations from 2.1 to 4.1 microns of a variety of objects exhibiting the 3.3-micron emission feature (first detected in NGC 7027) are reported. The characteristics of the feature, the various environments in which it is found, and possible emission mechanisms are discussed in light of all the available observations of the feature to date. A resonance feature in solids is the most probable emission mechanism; however, no satisfactory identification has yet been made on the basis of infrared spectroscopy of terrestrial materials.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astrophysical Journal; vol. 213
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  • 9
    Publication Date: 2011-08-17
    Description: Spectrophotometric observations from 2 to 4 microns of the compact H II regions W51-IRS 2, K3-50, and NGC 7538 are reported. Spectral features observed include hydrogen recombination lines and an absorption attributed to interstellar ice. Extinctions to the various sources are derived based on the observed hydrogen lines and radio fluxes. Thermal dust emission is found to dominate free-free and bound-free emission for wavelengths not less than 2 microns. The ice absorption is analyzed and compared with the extinction and 10 microns silicate absorption. A 3.3 micron emission feature (potentially due to the same material as in NGC 7027) was observed.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astrophysical Journal; 210; Dec. 1
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    Publication Date: 2011-08-16
    Description: Spectrophotometric observations from 2 to 4 microns and from 8 to 13 microns of several infrared sources associated with molecular clouds are reported. Narrow absorption features at 3.08 microns, attributed to interstellar ices, appear in all sources with a molecular cloud in the intervening line of sight. All sources showing ice absorptions also show broad absorption features, attributed to cold silicates, from 8 to 13 microns. The observed ice absorption profiles are all quite similar; however, they do not fit in detail Mie theory predictions of extinction for pure H2O or NH3 ices. The ratio of ice-to-silicate optical depths is found to vary, with most sources showing a ratio in the range 0.1-0.4. The ratio of visual extinction to ice absorption is found to increase rapidly from inside to outside the molecular cloud in NGC 2024.
    Keywords: ASTROPHYSICS
    Type: Astrophysical Journal; 207; Aug. 1
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