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Comets in Full Sky L Maps of the SWAN Instrument Comets in full sky L_α maps of the SWAN instrument J. T. T. Mäkinen, Jean-Loup Bertaux, T. Pulkkinen, W. Schmidt, E. Kyrölä, T. Summanen, Eric Quémerais, Rosine Lallement To cite this version: J. T. T. Mäkinen, Jean-Loup Bertaux, T. Pulkkinen, W. Schmidt, E. Kyrölä, et al.. Comets in full sky L_α maps of the SWAN instrument. Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A, EDP Sciences, 2001, 368 (1), pp.292 - 297. 10.1051/0004-6361:20000545. hal-01633004 HAL Id: hal-01633004 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01633004 Submitted on 10 Nov 2017 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. A&A 368, 292–297 (2001) Astronomy DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20000545 & c ESO 2001 Astrophysics CometsinfullskyLα maps of the SWAN instrument I. Survey from 1996 to 1998 J. T. T. M¨akinen1, J.-L. Bertaux2,T.I.Pulkkinen1,W.Schmidt1,E.Kyr¨ol¨a1, T. Summanen1, E. Qu´emerais2, and R. Lallement2 1 Finnish Meteorological Institute, Geophysics Research, PO Box 503, 00101 Helsinki, Finland 2 Service d’A´eronomie, BP 3, 91371 Verri`eres-le-Buisson, France Received 29 September 2000 / Accepted 8 December 2000 Abstract. The SWAN instrument onboard the SOHO spacecraft is a Lyman α scanning photometer cabable of mapping the whole sky with 1◦ resolution. Since January 1996 the instrument has produced on average three full sky maps a week with the principal scientific objective of observing the distribution of heliospheric neutral hydrogen. In addition, these systematic observations are a valuable source for studying comets brighter than a visual magnitude of 7–11, the observing limit depending on the abundance ratios of produced radicals and the location of the comet relative to the galactic plane. When the data before the temporary loss of control of SOHO at the end of June 1998 were processed, altogether 18 comets were positively identified, of which one is a new discovery and another 5 can be detected on SWAN images before their actual discovery date. This demonstrates the feasibility of SWAN as an instrument for cometary surveys. The observations are used to estimate the water production rates of the detected comets near their perihelion passages. Key words. data analysis – surveys – comets – ultraviolet: solar system 1. Introduction December 1996 to June 1998 represents the full capability of the instrument. At the end of the period the control The SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) space- of the spacecraft was lost for several months, and data craft has already been recognized as the most success- gathered after the recovery show that the instrument was ful comet finder ever, the total number of discoveries degraded through direct exposure to sunlight during the exceeding 200 during less than five years of operation. period of inactivity, decreasing its sensitivity and spectral Almost all new comets belong to the Kreutz sungrazer resolution. Despite additional setbacks like the subsequent family and can be detected from LASCO (Large Angle loss of attitude control gyroscopes of the spacecraft the and Spectrometric Coronagraph) images. While most of observing campaign proceeds at full scale. the SOHO instruments are studying the immediate sur- roundings of the Sun, one of them covers the rest of the The primary use of the SWAN full sky UV maps is sky. The SWAN (Solar Wind Anisotropies) instrument to study the latitudinal distribution of solar wind de- (Bertaux et al. 1995) onboard SOHO is a Lyman α multi- ductible from asymmetries in the cavity that it carves in anode scanning photometer with an instantaneous field of the passing cloud of interstellar neutral hydrogen which view (FOV) of 5 × 5◦ with 25 pixels 1 × 1◦ each. The in- resonantly scatters solar Lα light (Bertaux et al. 1999b). strument consists of two sensor heads each of which has an Another contribution to neutral hydrogen in the solar sys- overall FOV of over 2π steradians covering northern and tem comes from the photodissociation of H2O, the ma- jor volatile component of cometary nuclei. Several known southern ecliptic hemisphere, respectively. In the normal 1 operation mode the instrument is capable of mapping the comets have been observed separately , obtaining valu- whole sky in one day but since the time has to be shared able results (Bertaux et al. 1998, 1999a; Combi et al. with other kinds of observations, the instrument has pro- 2000). Since these observations cannot create a complete duced a complete sky map (Fig. 1) every three days on track record of comets possibly detectable by the instru- average. The observing activity has varied over the op- ment, especially new comets only discovered near their erational period (Fig. 2). In this respect the period from 1 Besides most of the comets identified in this survey these Send offprint requests to:T.M¨akinen, include 69P/Taylor, 81P/Wild 2 and C/1997 J2 Meunier- e-mail: [email protected] Dupouy. Assessment of these data is still incomplete. Article published by EDP Sciences and available at http://www.aanda.org or http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20000545 J. T. T. M¨akinen et al.: Comets in full sky Lα maps of the SWAN instrument. I. 293 90° 0° a s –90° 360° 270° 180° 90° 0° Fig. 1. SWAN full sky map in ecliptic coordinates. This 1◦ resolution UV image recorded April 9, 1996, shows the spatial distribution of interplanetary hydrogen, the area of bright stars near the galactic plane and the comet C/1996 B2 Hyakutake, denoted by the white arrow. The view of the instrument is always obstructed in two directions: pointing the instrument too close to the Sun (s) might damage the sensors, and the antisolar direction (a) is partly obstructed by the spacecraft itself. The locations of the unobservable zones change as the spacecraft moves on its orbit around the Sun perihelion, a cometary survey was undertaken using the 15 full sky images which constitute the most systematic set n of measurements with best available coverage. 10 Since the SWAN instrument was not designed primar- ily to detect comets, its performance in this respect is far ◦ from ideal. The spatial resolution is restricted to the 1 of 5 sensor pixels although this shortcoming is somewhat com- pensated by the fact that the hydrogen cloud of a comet is almost spherically symmetric and orders of magnitude larger than the visible dust tail. The point spread func- 1996 1997 1998 tion (PSF) of the instrument has a standard deviation Fig. 2. Number of produced SWAN full sky maps per month comparable to the pixel size near the Lα line but grows from January 1996 to June 1998 significantly towards the limits of the observing window of 115–170 nm and has a slight dependence on observing geometry. This spreads out the images of hot UV stars exospheric Lα emission still makes the SWAN instrument on the sky maps. The situation is further complicated by an important tool for cometary studies. line of sight (LOS) retrieval inaccuracies which contribute ◦ another 1 of random diffusion to the observed signal. 2. Survey method These effects together pose great difficulties for observ- ing comets especially near the galactic plane where UV The aforementioned shortcomings in mind, a heuristic stars are abundant. Also the short exposure time of the combined filtering and neural network method (M¨akinen normal mode – 13 s in any particular direction – gives et al. 2000b) was developed to detect all possible candi- only a modest signal to noise ratio despite the relatively dates for cometary objects. The single exposures of one high photometric sensitivity of about 0.84 counts per sec- observing session are binned into a 1 × 1◦ grid in ecliptic ond per Rayleigh per pixel. All these complications are coordinates. A variable-scale median difference filtering re- further accentuated on the post-recovery data but the sys- moves the smooth background caused by the interstellar tematic nature of observations combined with very high neutral hydrogen cloud. The method is similar to the con- coverage and the location of the spacecraft at the L1 point ventional overlaying of an image with its out-of-focus neg- between the Earth and the Sun, unpolluted by the Earth’s ative to reveal fine structure. The median filter was chosen 294 J. T. T. M¨akinen et al.: Comets in full sky Lα maps of the SWAN instrument. I. if the number of simultaneously firing adjacent layer A nodes exceeds the given threshold value. Then h i 1 ··· T Cm1···mT = Bk + Bk m1 mT × 1 ··· (3) median bk g(ikm ,jkm )+ m1 1 1 T + b g(ikm ,jkm ) kmT T T where the summation is over a particular trajectory and g(i, j) is a geometric weight correction for spherical coor- dinates. The layer C nodes reside in the orbital parameters space and they are evaluated through initialization of po- tential traces of comets which are then followed over the c layer B node map. The principle can be understood by vi- b sualizing an expanding and attenuating probability wave around every firing layer B node. Firing nodes are affected by the local probability field so that a nonlinear amplifi- e cation of waves emitted by successive firings at suitable d intervals soon forms a coherent pulse denoting the proba- ble trajectory of a comet.
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