Infrared Brightness of a Comet Belt Beyond Neptune
Abstract
We consider the infrared brightness of a flattened comet belt beyond the orbit of Neptune using a disk-like model with a power-law density distribution of comets. We compare this spectrum with the emission from a model zodiacal dust cloud in the ecliptic and with published IRAS data and present some consequences of dust in the comet belt.
- Publication:
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Earth Moon and Planets
- Pub Date:
- July 1988
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00118038
- Bibcode:
- 1988EM&P...42...41J
- Keywords:
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- Brightness Temperature;
- Comets;
- Infrared Astronomy;
- Oort Cloud;
- Collision Rates;
- Mass Distribution;
- Solar Orbits;
- Zodiacal Dust;
- Astrophysics