Krishna Swamy, K. S. (1991) Heliocentric variation of dust production in comets inferred from infrared observations Astronomy and Astrophysics, 241 (1). pp. 260-266. ISSN 0004-6361
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Abstract
The observed infrared emission from comets has been used to derive the heliocentric dependence of the dust production rate. There is a tight relation with heliocentric distance r, showing 1/r-squared variation up to r less than about 1 AU for Comet Kohoutek and 1/r to the 4th for r greater than about 1 AU for Comet Halley. There appears to be a general pattern of behavior in the shape of the heliocentric dependence of the dust production rate for several comets. This trend is qualitatively similar to the sublimation curves for water-ice.
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