Near-UV and optical spectroscopy of comets using the ISIS spectrograph on the WHT

Hyland, M. G.; Fitzsimmons, A. and Snodgrass, C. (2019). Near-UV and optical spectroscopy of comets using the ISIS spectrograph on the WHT. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484 pp. 1347–1358.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz075

Abstract

We present an analysis of long-slit cometary spectroscopy using the dual-arm ISIS spectrograph on the 4.2 m WHT. Eleven comets were observed over two nights in 2016 March and we detected the OH (0-0) emission band at 3085 Å in the spectra of five of these comets. Emission bands of the species NH, CN, C₃, C₂, NH₂ and [OI] were also detected. We used Haser modelling to determine molecular production rates and abundance ratios for the observed species. We found that our average abundances relative to OH and CN were generally consistent with those measured in previous studies.

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