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We analyzed the BVR photometry of the comets 63P/Wild 1 and C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS) obtained between March 2013 and May 2014, with 0.20-m to 2.0-m aperture telescopes installed in Australia, Europa and USA. We have found R-band nuclear magnitudes \(H_{0}=16.3\pm 0.6\) and \(12.52 \pm 0.02\) for 63P and K1 comets. Admitting a geometric albedo equal to 0.04, the nuclei have a radius equal to \(1.5\pm 0.4\) and \(8.67\pm 0.08\) km respectively. Using the Lomb-Scargle periodogram, we found that the most probable periods of rotation of these nuclei are \(14\pm 2\) h and \(9.4 \pm 0.4\) h, with a peak-to-peak light curve amplitude of \(0.85 \pm 0.01\) and \(0.4\pm 0.2\) magnitudes. The inner coma of both comets were probably optically thin and in steady-state during all duration of our observations seasons. The average normalized reflectivity gradient S’ of the coma of 63P and K1 are \(10\pm 15\) (1\(\sigma \)) and \(8\pm 7\) %/100 nm in the spectral range between 440 and 647 nm, which have indicated that both comets are statistically redder than the Sun. The Kruskal–Wallis H-test suggests that the distribution of the color indexes B-V, V-R, and B-R of the objects are similar, indicating some kind of equality between the physical or mineralogical properties of the comas of these comets.
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Betzler, A.S., de Sousa, O.F., Diepvens, A. et al. BVR photometry of comets 63P/Wild 1 and C/2012 K1 (PANSTARRS). Astrophys Space Sci 365, 102 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-020-03814-5
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