Deep Impact ejection from Comet 9P/Tempel 1 as a triggered outburst
Abstract
Ejection of material after the Deep Impact collision with Comet Tempel 1 was studied based on analysis of the images made by the Deep Impact cameras during the first 13 minutes after impact. Analysis of the images shows that there was a local maximum of the rate of ejection at time of ejection ~10 s with typical velocities ~100 m/s. At the same time, a considerable excessive ejection in a few directions began, the direction to the brightest pixel changed by ~50°, and there was a local increase of brightness of the brightest pixel. The ejection can be considered as a superposition of the normal ejection and the longer triggered outburst.
- Publication:
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Icy Bodies of the Solar System
- Pub Date:
- 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921310002000
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1011.5541
- Bibcode:
- 2010IAUS..263..317I
- Keywords:
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- comets: general;
- solar system: general;
- Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages (including 2 figures) Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, IAU vol. 5, Symposium S263, "Icy bodies in the Solar System" (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3-7 August, 2009), ed. by J.A. Fernandez, D. Lazzaro, D. Prialnik, R. Schulz, Cambridge University Press, pp. 317-321. (2010)