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Water Production of Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) Observed with the SWAN Instrument

Bertaux, Jean-Loup; Combi, Michael R.; Mäkinen, J. Teemu T. +1 more

The SWAN (Solar Wind ANisotropies) Lyman-alpha all-sky camera on the SOHO spacecraft observed the hydrogen coma of comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) from the end of May through mid-August 2000. A systematic set of water-production rates was obtained for this well-documented event of complete fragmentation of a cometary nucleus. The observations indicate th…