Broadening and occultation of radio sources by comet Giacobini-Zinner as observed from ICE

Details Broadening and occultation of radio sources by comet Giacobini-Zinner as observed from ICE Broadening and occultation of radio sources by comet Giacobini-Zinner as observed from ICE

Apr 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986georl..13..407s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 13, April 1986, p. 407-410. CNES-supported research.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Earth (Planet), Giacobini-Zinner Comet, Milky Way Galaxy, Radio Occultation, Electron Density (Concentration), Galactic Radiation, Spaceborne Experiments, Temporal Distribution, Wave Propagation, Comets, Giacobini-Zinner, Occultations, Radio Emissions, Ice Mission, Source, Spacecraft Observations, Radio Astronomy Experiment, Propagation, Structure, Comae, Position (Location), Scattering, Fluctuations

Scientific paper

During the encounter of the International Cometary Explorer (ICE) with comet P/Giacobini-Zinner, the radio astronomy experiment observed occultation and propagation effects on several distant radio sources. The observations of the partial occultation of the galactic radio source between 360 and 1000 kHz show that the three-dimensional large scale structure of the coma is consistent with the structure determined from in-situ measurements made along the encounter trajectory. In addition, these observations remove a previously existing ambiguity in the position of the galactic source. Between 110 and 360 kHz the earth source is broadened by scattering by the comet random density inhomogeneities. The amount of broadening indicates that the electron density fluctuations measured in situ by ICE along its trajectory (100 pct fluctuations with a scale length of 1000-2000 km over a path length of 100,000 km) exist with the same properties in the perpendicular direction.

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