Recurring Outbursts of P/2019 LM₄ (Palomar)

Ye, Quanzhi and Kelley, Michael S. P. and Bodewits, Dennis and Bauer, James M. and Mahabal, Ashish and Masci, Frank J. and Ngeow, Chow-Choong (2020) Recurring Outbursts of P/2019 LM₄ (Palomar). Research Notes of the AAS, 4 (5). Art. No. 76. ISSN 2515-5172. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200529-074732105

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Abstract

We present a preliminary analysis of comet P/2019 LM₄ (Palomar) as observed by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey in 2019 and 2020. We find that the discovery of the comet in 2019 and the recovery in 2020 is largely attributed to two separate outbursts that are ≳2 and ≳3.9 mag in strength. The two outbursts occurred between the end of April and early May in 2019, and between 2020 May 8.31 and 9.52 UTC.

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https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ab96b9	DOI	Article

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Author	ORCID
Ye, Quanzhi	0000-0002-4838-7676
Kelley, Michael S. P.	0000-0002-6702-7676
Bodewits, Dennis	0000-0002-2668-7248
Bauer, James M.	0000-0001-9542-0953
Mahabal, Ashish	0000-0003-2242-0244
Masci, Frank J.	0000-0002-8532-9395
Ngeow, Chow-Choong	0000-0001-8771-7554

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© 2020 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2020 May 21; Accepted 2020 May 26; Published 2020 May 28. Based on observations obtained with the Samuel Oschin Telescope 48 inch at the Palomar Observatory as part of the Zwicky Transient Facility project. ZTF is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. AST-1440341 and a collaboration including Caltech, IPAC, the Weizmann Institute for Science, the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University, the University of Maryland, the University of Washington, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron and Humboldt University, Los Alamos National Laboratories, the TANGO Consortium of Taiwan, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. Operations are conducted by COO, IPAC, and UW. Facility: PO:1.2 m. - Software: sbpy (Mommert et al. 2019), ZChecker (Kelley et al. 2019).

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Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC), Zwicky Transient Facility

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Funding Agency	Grant Number
NSF	AST-1440341
Caltech	UNSPECIFIED
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)	UNSPECIFIED
Weizmann Institute of Science	UNSPECIFIED
Stockholm University	UNSPECIFIED
University of Maryland	UNSPECIFIED
University of Washington	UNSPECIFIED
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron	UNSPECIFIED
Humboldt University	UNSPECIFIED
Los Alamos National Laboratory	UNSPECIFIED
TANGO Consortium	UNSPECIFIED
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	UNSPECIFIED
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	UNSPECIFIED

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Comets ; Short period comets

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Quanzhi Ye et al 2020 Res. Notes AAS 4 76

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Tony Diaz

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29 May 2020 15:52

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