The composition of comets

AL Cochran, AC Levasseur-Regourd, M Cordiner… - Space Science …, 2015 - Springer
This paper is the result of the International Cometary Workshop, held in Toulouse, France in
April 2014, where the participants came together to assess our knowledge of comets prior to …

The science of sungrazers, sunskirters, and other near-sun comets

GH Jones, MM Knight, K Battams, DC Boice… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
This review addresses our current understanding of comets that venture close to the Sun,
and are hence exposed to much more extreme conditions than comets that are typically …

Polarimetry with the Gemini planet imager: methods, performance at first light, and the circumstellar ring around HR 4796A

MD Perrin, G Duchene, M Millar-Blanchaer… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first results from the polarimetry mode of the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI),
which uses a new integral field polarimetry architecture to provide high contrast linear …

Color variations of comet 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann 1 in 2018

A Voitko, E Zubko, O Ivanova, I Luk'yanyk, A Kochergin… - Icarus, 2022 - Elsevier
We measure the photometric color in the inner coma of Comet 29P/Schwassmann–
Wachmann 1 on nine nights in August and October, 2018. We see variations in the color …

Imaging polarimetry and photometry of comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner

E Chornaya, E Zubko, I Luk'yanyk, A Kochergin… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
We report results of polarimetric observations of comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner made at phase
angles, α≈ 76–78°, between 10 and 17 of September 2018, and compare them with …

Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) coma composition at~ 4 au from HST observations

E Zubko, G Videen, DC Hines, Y Shkuratov… - Planetary and Space …, 2015 - Elsevier
We analyze the first color and polarization images of Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) taken during
two measurement campaigns of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) on UTC 2013 April 10 …

C/2020 S3 (Erasmus): Comet with a presumably transient maximum of linear polarization Pmax

E Chornaya, E Zubko, A Kochergin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We measured the degree of linear polarization of Comet C/2020 S3 (Erasmus) on 2020
November 13, 20, 22, and 23, while the comet was observed at large phase angles, α …

Monitoring the negative polarization in Comet 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann during quiescence

A Kochergin, E Zubko, E Chornaya, M Zheltobryukhov… - Icarus, 2021 - Elsevier
During five nights between February 3 and 10, 2021, we monitored the degree of linear
polarization in Comet 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann with the broadband R filter. It is the …

Monitoring polarization in comet 46P/Wirtanen

M Zheltobryukhov, E Zubko, E Chornaya… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We measure the degree of linear polarization of comet 46P/Wirtanen during two months,
embracing the perihelion passage in 2018 December with phase angles ranging from α …

Properties of dust particles in comets from photometric and polarimetric observations of 67P

E Hadamcik, AC Levasseur-Regourd… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Remote observations of the light scattered by dust particles in comet 67P/Churyumov–
Gerasimenko (67P/CG)(photometry and imaging polarimetry) allow us to compare the …