Abstract
The remote sensing of comets in the ultraviolet bandpass has been a valuable tool for studying the structure, composition, variability, and physical processes at work in cometary comae. By extension, these studies of comae have revealed key insights into the composition of cometary nuclei. Here we briefly review the ultraviolet studies of comets, and then take a look toward the future of such work as anticipated by the advent of several key new instruments.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
A'Hearn, M.F., Feldman, P.D., and D.G. Schleicher: 1983, ApJL 274, L99.
A'Hearn, M.F., Schleicher, D.G., Feldman, P.D., Millis, R.L., and Thompson, D.T.: 1984, AJ 89, 589.
A'Hearn, M.F., and Livengood, T.A.: 1998, In Ultraviolet Astrophysics Beyond the IUE Final Archive (W. Wamstekker and R. Gonz´alez-Riestra, eds.), ESA SP-413, Noordwijk, ESA Pub. Div., 625.
Bertaux, J.-L., Blamont, J.E., and Festou, M.C.: 1973, A&A 25, 415.
Bowyer, S. and Malina, R.: 1991, EUV Astronomy, Adv. Space Res. 11 (11), 205.
Code, A.D., Houch, T.E., and Lillie, C.F.: 1972, In The Scientific Results from Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO-2) (A.D. Code, ed.), NASA SP-310, 109.
Dennerl, K., Englhauser, J., and J. Trümper: 1997, Science 277, 1625.
Feldman, P.D.: 1982, In Comets(L.L.Wilkening, ed.) U. Az. Press, Tucson, 461.
Feldman, P.D.: 1991, In Comets in the Post-Halley Era(R. Newburn, M. Neugebauer, and J. Rahe, eds). Kluwer, Dordrecht, 339.
Festou, M.C., and Feldman, P.D.: 1987, In The IUE Satellite (Y. Konda, ed.) Reidel, 101–118.
Festou, M.C., Rickman, H., and West, R.: 1993, A & A Revs. 4, 363, and 5, 37.
Keller, H.U.: 1976, Sp. Sci. Revs. 18, 641.
Krasnopolsky, V.A.,et al.: 1997, Science 277, 1488.
Lisse, C.M.,et al.: 1996, Science 274, 205.
Meier, R.R.: 1991, Space Sci. Revs. 58, 1.
Moos, W., Sembach, K., and Bianchi, L.: 1997, In Origins(C.E. Woodward, J.M. Shull, and H.A. Thronson, eds.), ASP Conf. Series 148, 304.
Morse, J.A., Green, J.C., Ebbets, D., Andrews, J., Heap, S.R., Leitherer, C., Linsky, J., Savage, B.D., Shull, J.M., Snow, T.P., Stern, S.A., Stocke, J.T. and Wilkinson, E.: 1998, Proc. SPIE 3356, 361.
Nelson, R.M.: 1998, EOS 79, 493.
Owen, T., Bar-Nun, A., and Kleinfeld, J.: 1991, In Comets in the Post-Halley Era(R. Newburn and J. Rahe., eds.) Kluwer Press, Dordrecht, 429.
Stern, S.A., Green, J.C., Cash, W., and Cook, T.A.: 1992, Icarus 95: 157.
Stern, S.A., Slater, D.C., Gibson, W., Scherrer, J., A'Hearn, M.F., Bertaux, J.-L., Feldman, P.D., and Festou, M.C.: 1998, Adv. Sp. Res. 21, No. 11, 1517.
Stern, S.A., Slater, D.C., Festou, M.C., Parker, J.P., Gladstone, R., and A'Hearn, M.F.: 1999, BAAS 30, No. 4.
Weaver, H.A.: 1998, In The Scientific Impact of the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (J.C. Brandt, T.B. Ake, and C.C. Peterson, eds.), ASP Conf. Series 143, 213.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Stern, S. Studies of Comets in the Ultraviolet: The Past and the Future. Space Science Reviews 90, 355–361 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005291207827
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005291207827