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这就是彗星崩溃的方式:分裂的彗星家族彗星

That's the way the comet crumbles: Splitting Jupiter-family comets

Y. R. Fernandez

摘要:

我们目前的理解分裂,彗星家族的审查。重点是最近对彗星的研究告诉我们关于分裂现象的本质。我们的目标是不重复的信息在最近的评论分裂彗星,但它的基础上,特别是,我们讨论了彗星,遭受分裂或碎裂事件在过去几年。这些彗星包括:(a)57 P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte彗星,2002年观测到它带有一长串训练碎片;(b)73 P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3彗星,1995年分裂,2006年在它相对近距离地经过地球时受到广泛研究,在此期间发现和研究了几十个碎片;(c)174 P/Echeclus,一个半人马座,可能是未来的JFC,在2005年底分裂,是第一个观察到这样的半人马座。我们还讨论了SOHO最近观测到的分裂彗星可能是短周期的。斯皮策太空望远镜已经观测到许多JFC,并为我们提供了前所未有的彗星碎片尾迹的详细视图,这可能被认为是介于微米大小的尘埃颗粒的“正常”喷射和米到公里大小的碎片之间的中间地带。我们还将讨论未来调查中可能出现的研究分裂JFC的潜在突破。

英文摘要:

Our current understanding of split, Jupiter-family comets is reviewed. The focus is on what recent studies of comets have told us about the nature of the splitting phenomenon. The goal is to not repeat the information given in recent reviews of split comets, but to build upon it. In particular, we discuss comets that have suffered splitting or fragmentation events in the past few years. These include comets (a) 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte, observed with a long train of fragments in 2002; (b) 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, which split in 1995 and was extensively studied during its relatively close passage to Earth in 2006, during which dozens of fragments were discovered and studied; and (c) 174P/Echeclus, a Centaur and potentially future JFC, which split in late 2005 and was the first such Centaur observed to do so. We also discuss recent observations by SOHO of split comets that are likely of short-period. The Spitzer Space Telescope has observed many JFCs and provided us with unprecedented detailed views of cometary debris trails, which may be thought of as a middle ground between "normal" ejection of micron-sized dust grains and the cleaving off of meter-to-kilometer sized fragments. We will also discuss potential breakthroughs in studying splitting JFCs that may come from future surveys.

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