Comet Hale-Bopp defines a milestone event for cometary science: it is the first "really big" comet observed with modern equipment on the ground and from space and due to that; it is considered the new reference object in cometary sciences.
At the beginning of a new era in spacecraft exploration of comets and five years after Hale-Bopp's perihelion passage these proceedings of invited and contributed papers for IAU Colloquium 186 "Cometary Science after Hale-Bopp" review the state-of-the-art knowledge on comets, the icy, dusty and most primordial left-overs of the formation disk of our own solar system.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
The 1995 2002 Long-Term Monitoring of Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) at Radio Wavelength (CP). - Large-Scale Structures in Comet Hale-Bopp. Latitudinal Variations and Monster Disconnection Event (CP). - Modelling of Shape Changes of the Nuclei of Comets C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp and 46P/Wirtanen Caused by Water Ice Sublimation (CP). - Wide Field Imaging and the Velocity Structure in the Coma of Hale-Bopp (CP). - Observations of Rotating Jets of Carbon Monoxide in Comet Hale-Bopp with the IRAM Interferometer (RN). - From Hale-Bopp s Activity to Properties of its Nucleus (RN). - The Shadow of Comet Hale-Bopp in Lyman Alpha. An Absolute Measurement of H Production Rate with SOHO/SWAN (CP). - The Gas Production Rate and Coma Structure of Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) (CP). - Velocity-Resolved Observations of H? Emission from Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) (RN). - An Easy-to-Use Model for the Optical Thickness and Ambient Illumination within Cometary Dust Comae (CP). - How Fast the Nucleus of Comet Hale-Bopp Was Rotating? (CP). - A Study of Non-Gravitational Effects of Comet C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp (CP). - 73P/Schwassmann Wachmann 3 One Orbit after Break-Up: Search for Fragments (CP). - Spectra of Split Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) (RN). - Split Comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR) (RN). - On the 2001 Splitting of the Nucleus of 51P/Harrington (RN). - The Breakup of C/1999 S4 (LINEAR), Days 0 10 (CP). - Comparative Study of the Dust Polarimetric Properties in Split and Normal Comets (CP). - Observations of Comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR) with the Multipupil Fiber Spectrograph (RN). - Long-Term Amateur CCD Monitoring of Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) (CP). - The Dust Coma of Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) (CP). - Fast Variations of Spectra of Comet Halley (CP). - C/1995 O1 Hale-Bopp: Short and Long Distance Activity from a TheoreticalModel (CP). - Challenging a Paradigm: Do We Need Active and Inactive Areas to Account for Near-Nuclear Jet Activity? (CP). - Evolution of the Rotational State of Irregular Cometary Nuclei (CP). - A Model of an Active Region on the Surface of a Cometary Nucleus (CP). - Spanish Monitoring of Comets: Making Sense of Amateur Photometric Data (CP). - Measuring Thermo-Mechanical Properties of Cometary Surfaces: In Situ Methods (CP). - Impact Break-Up of Cometary Nuclei Conclusions from Impact Experiments (RN). - Thermophysical Modelling of Comet P/Borrelly Effects of Volume Energy Absorption and Volume Sublimation (CP). - From a Weak to a Strong Comet 3D Global Hybrid Simulation Studies (CP). - Chemical Composition Diversity among 24 Comets Observed at Radio Wavelengths (CP). - Nitrogen Sulfide in Comets Hyakutake (C/1996 B2) and Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1) (CP). - Chemical Processes in Cometary Comae (CP). - Optical Spectroscopy of Comet C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) at the Guillermo Haro Astrophysical Observatory in Mexico (RN). - Observations of the OH Radio Lines of Comets at Nançay Recent Developments (RN). - Spin Temperature of Ammonia Determined from NH2 in Comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR) (CP). - Evidence for Chemical Heterogeneity in the Nucleus of C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) (CP). - Optical Spectroscopy and Near-Infrared Observations of Comet C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) in December 2001 from Chile and Brazil (CP). - Photometry and Imaging of Comet C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) (RN). - Disconnection Events in Comets (CP). - Polarimetric Study of Comets C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) and C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR) (CP). - Polarimetric and Photometric Observations of Split Comet C/2001 A2 (LINEAR) (CP). - The Near-Nuclear Coma of Comet Halley in March 1986 (CP). - The Experiments Onboard the Rosetta Lander (CP). - Radio Investigations of19P/Borrelly in Support to the Deep Space 1 Flyby (RN). - Visible Lightcurve Observations of Comet 19P/Borrelly (CP). - Spin Axis Direction of Comet 19P/Borrelly Based on Observations from 2000 and 2001 (CP). - Directional Distribution of Observable Comets Induced by a Star Passage through the Oort Cloud (RN). - Modeling of the Orbital Evolution of 2060 Chiron (RN). - The Surface of Cometary Nuclei Related Minor Icy Bodies (RN). - On the Role of Dust Mass Loss in the Evolution of Comets and Dusty Disk Systems (CP). - Confirmation of Cometary Features of Newly Discovered Bodies (CP). - The Round Table Discussion: How Should We Take Best Advantage of the New Generation of Large Telescopes for Cometary Research? (CP). - List of Participants.
