Disconnection Event

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5226.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5226. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Comets

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A discontinuity in the gas tail of a comet in which the tail appears to break off from the coma, and a new tail begins to grow. A disconnection event occurs when the comet crosses a sector boundary. Entrained within the solar wind is a magnetic field. As the Sun rotates, the field lines are wound into a spiral pattern. The magnetic field has regions of north and south polarity, and the sector bou...

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