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20172020
most citedThe Main Belt Comets and Ice in the Solar System

80 citations · 299 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

astro-ph.EP202038 cited

Outburst and Splitting of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov

David Jewitt, Yoonyoung Kim, Max Mutchler +3

We present Hubble Space Telescope observations of a photometric outburst and splitting event in interstellar comet 2I/Borisov. The outburst, first reported with the comet outbound…

astro-ph.EP202037 cited

Coma Anisotropy and the Rotation Pole of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov

Yoonyoung Kim, David Jewitt, Max Mutchler +3

Hubble Space Telescope observations of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov near perihelion show the ejection of large (>~100 um) particles at <~9 m/s speeds, with estimated mass-loss rat…

astro-ph.EP2020

Observations of Disintegrating Long-Period Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) -- A Sibling of C/1844 Y1 (Great Comet)

Man-To Hui, Quan-Zhi Ye

We present a study of C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) using Sloan observations from mid-January to early April 2020. During this timespan, the comet brightened with a growth in the effecti…

astro-ph.EP202067 cited

The Nucleus of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov

David Jewitt, Man-To Hui, Yoonyoung Kim +3

We present high resolution imaging observations of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov (formerly C/2019 Q4) obtained using the Hubble Space Telescope. Scattering from the comet is domina…

astro-ph.EP201924 cited

Asteroid (3200) Phaethon: colors, phase curve, limits on cometary activity and fragmentation

Maryam Tabeshian, Paul Wiegert, Quanzhi Ye +3

We report on a multi-observatory campaign to examine asteroid 3200 Phaethon during its December 2017 close approach to Earth, in order to improve our measurements of its fundamenta…

astro-ph.EP2018

Distant Comet C/2017 K2 and the Cohesion Bottleneck

David Jewitt, Jessica Agarwal, Man-To Hui +3

Distant long-period comet C/2017 K2 has been outside the planetary region of the solar system for 3 Myr, negating the possibility that heat retained from the previous perihelion co…