Linear polarization observations were carried out on comet C/2000 WM1 with the 1.2m telescope at Mt. Abu Observatory during November 2001 and March 2002. The observations in November were at low phase angle (<22\degr) when the polarization is negative and where the data for most of the comets are rather meager. The observations during March were made when the phase angle was ∼ 47\degr. Observations were conducted through the IHW narrow band and BVR broad band filters. Based on these polarization observations we infer that the comet C/2000 WM1 belongs to high polarization class i.e. the dusty comet family.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0305243,
title = {Polarization Studies of Comet C/2000 WM1 (LINEAR)},
author = {U. C. Joshi and K. S. Baliyan and S. Ganesh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0305243},
year = {2011}
}
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7 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Astron. & Astroph