Publication detail
Imaging Comet ISON C/2012 S1 in the Inner Corona at Perihelion
DRUCKMÜLLER, M. HABBAL, S. ANIOL, P. DING, A. MORGAN, H.
Czech title
Imaging Comet ISON C/2012 S1 in the Inner Corona at Perihelion
English title
Imaging Comet ISON C/2012 S1 in the Inner Corona at Perihelion
Type
journal article in Web of Science
Language
en
Original abstract
Much anticipation and speculation were building around comet ISON, or C/2012 S1, discovered on 2012 September 21 by the International Scientific Optical Network telescope in Russia, and bound for the Sun on 2013 November 28, with a closest heliocentric approach distance of 2.7 R. Here we present the first white light image of the comet's trail through the inner corona. The image was taken with a wide field Lyot-type coronagraph from the Mees Observatory on Haleakala at 19:12 UT, past its perihelion passage at 18:45 UT. The perfect match between the comet's trail captured in the inner corona and the trail that had persisted across the field of view of 2-6 R of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment/C2 coronagraph at 19:12 UT demonstrates that comet survived its perihelion passage.
Czech abstract
Much anticipation and speculation were building around comet ISON, or C/2012 S1, discovered on 2012 September 21 by the International Scientific Optical Network telescope in Russia, and bound for the Sun on 2013 November 28, with a closest heliocentric approach distance of 2.7 R. Here we present the first white light image of the comet's trail through the inner corona. The image was taken with a wide field Lyot-type coronagraph from the Mees Observatory on Haleakala at 19:12 UT, past its perihelion passage at 18:45 UT. The perfect match between the comet's trail captured in the inner corona and the trail that had persisted across the field of view of 2-6 R of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment/C2 coronagraph at 19:12 UT demonstrates that the survived its perihelion passage.
English abstract
Much anticipation and speculation were building around comet ISON, or C/2012 S1, discovered on 2012 September 21 by the International Scientific Optical Network telescope in Russia, and bound for the Sun on 2013 November 28, with a closest heliocentric approach distance of 2.7 R. Here we present the first white light image of the comet's trail through the inner corona. The image was taken with a wide field Lyot-type coronagraph from the Mees Observatory on Haleakala at 19:12 UT, past its perihelion passage at 18:45 UT. The perfect match between the comet's trail captured in the inner corona and the trail that had persisted across the field of view of 2-6 R of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment/C2 coronagraph at 19:12 UT demonstrates that comet survived its perihelion passage.
Keywords in English
comets, C/2012 S1 ISON, Sun, corona
RIV year
2014
Released
12.03.2014
ISSN
2041-8205
Volume
2014( 784)
Number
2
Pages from–to
22–25
Pages count
4
BIBTEX
@article{BUT106821,
author="Miloslav {Druckmüller} and Shadia Rifai {Habbal} and Peter {Aniol} and Adalbert {Ding} and Huw {Morgan},
title="Imaging Comet ISON C/2012 S1 in the Inner Corona at Perihelion",
year="2014",
volume="2014( 784)",
number="2",
month="March",
pages="22--25",
issn="2041-8205"
}