@article{73923cc68db541c4ab03332eb74e1218,
title = "Ensemble properties of comets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey",
abstract = "We present the ensemble properties of 31 comets (27 resolved and 4 unresolved) observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This sample of comets represents about 1 comet per 10million SDSS photometric objects. Five-band (u,g,r,i,z) photometry is used to determine the comets' colors, sizes, surface brightness profiles, and rates of dust production in terms of the Afρ formalism. We find that the cumulative luminosity function for the Jupiter Family Comets in our sample is well fit by a power law of the form N((0.49±0.05)H for H<18, with evidence of a much shallower fit N((0.19±0.03)H for the faint (14.5",
author = "Michael Solontoi and {\v Z}eljko Ivezi{\'c} and Mario Juri{\'c} and Becker, \{Andrew C.\} and Lynne Jones and West, \{Andrew A.\} and Steve Kent and Lupton, \{Robert H.\} and Mark Claire and Knapp, \{Gillian R.\} and Tom Quinn and Gunn, \{James E.\} and Schneider, \{Donald P.\}",
note = "Funding Information: Funding for the SDSS and SDSS-II has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The SDSS Web Site is http://www.sdss.org/ . Funding Information: Z.I. acknowledges support by NSF Grant AST-0551161 to LSST for design and development activity, and by the Croatian National Science Foundation Grant O-1548-2009 . Funding Information: M.S. would like to acknowledge support from the Brinson Foundation grant in aid of Astrophysics Research to the Adler Planetarium \& Astronomy Museum. Funding Information: M.J. wishes to acknowledge the support for this work provided by NASA through Hubble Fellowship Grant \#HF-51255.01-A awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA, under Contract NAS 5-26555. Funding Information: D.P.S. was supported in part by National Science Foundation Grant AST 06-07634 ",
year = "2012",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1016/j.icarus.2011.10.008",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "218",
pages = "571--584",
journal = "Icarus",
issn = "0019-1035",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "1",
}