\begin{table}%t4 \caption{\label{tab:nuclradii}Properties of the nuclei of the comets.} \small%\centerline { \begin{tabular}{lrrrrr} \hline\hline Comet & $R_{\rm app}$ (mag) & $r_{\rm n}$ (km) & $(V-R)$ & $(B-V)$ & $(R-I)$ \\ \noalign{\smallskip}\hline {\it Solar colors}: & & & 0.35 & 0.65 & 0.28 \\ \noalign{\smallskip} 4P/Faye & 20.12~$\pm$~0.03 & 1.77~$\pm$~0.04 & 0.45~$\pm$~0.04 & -- & -- \\ 10P/Tempel 2 & 14.77~$\pm$~0.03 & 5.98~$\pm$~0.04$^*$ & 0.49~$\pm$~0.03 & 0.80~$\pm$~0.02 & 0.52~$\pm$~0.03 \\ 17P/Holmes & 20.61~$\pm$~0.04 & 1.71~$\pm$~0.07 & 0.56~$\pm$~0.02 & -- & -- \\ 37P/Forbes & 20.83~$\pm$~0.04 & 0.81~$\pm$~0.04 & 0.29~$\pm$~0.03 & -- & 0.66~$\pm$~0.06 \\ 44P/Reinmuth 2 & 19.83~$\pm$~0.05 & 1.61~$\pm$~0.07 & 0.62~$\pm$~0.08 & -- & -- \\ 50P/Arend & 20.58~$\pm$~0.04 & 0.95~$\pm$~0.03 & 0.81~$\pm$~0.10 & -- & 0.26~$\pm$~0.09 \\ 59P/Kearns--Kwee & 20.86~$\pm$~0.05 & 0.79~$\pm$~0.03 & 0.62~$\pm$~0.07 & -- & 0.27~$\pm$~0.08 \\ 63P/Wild 1 & 19.17~$\pm$~0.02 & 1.46~$\pm$~0.03 & 0.50~$\pm$~0.05 & -- & 0.42~$\pm$~0.04 \\ 71P/Clark & 21.83~$\pm$~0.07 & 0.68~$\pm$~0.04 & 0.64~$\pm$~0.07 & -- & -- \\ 84P/Giclas & 20.59~$\pm$~0.04 & 0.90~$\pm$~0.05 & 0.32~$\pm$~0.03 & -- & -- \\ 106P/Schuster & 18.91~$\pm$~0.03 & 0.94~$\pm$~0.03 & 0.52~$\pm$~0.06 & 1.01~$\pm$~0.06 & 0.45~$\pm$~0.06 \\ 112P/Urata--Niijima & 20.96~$\pm$~0.04 & 0.90~$\pm$~0.05 & 0.53~$\pm$~0.04 & -- & -- \\ 114P/Wiseman--Skiff & 19.73~$\pm$~0.04 & 0.78~$\pm$~0.05 & 0.46~$\pm$~0.02 & 0.85~$\pm$~0.03 & 0.54~$\pm$~0.02 \\ \hline\end{tabular}} \smallskip $R_{\rm app}$: apparent magnitude of the nucleus in the Johnson--Kron--Cousins photometric system. \\ $r_{\rm n}$: effective radius of the nucleus assuming $p_R = 0.04$, $\beta = 0.040$~mag/deg except 10P/Tempel 2 $(V-R)$, $(B-V)$, $(R-I)$: color indices. \\ $^*$using $p_R = 0.024$ as measured independently. \end{table}