Progress in a Study of Striations in the Dust Tail of Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1)

Details Progress in a Study of Striations in the Dust Tail of Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1) Progress in a Study of Striations in the Dust Tail of Comet Hale-Bopp (C/1995 O1)

Jan 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999stin...0073719s&link_type=abstract

Technical Report, Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States

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Striation, Comet Tails, Cometary Atmospheres, Hale-Bopp Comet, Astrometry, Fragmentation, Solar Radiation, Radiation Pressure, Schmidt Cameras, Photographs, Images

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We report preliminary results of a massive investigation of the striation patterns observed in the dust tail of comet Hale-Bopp in March and April 1997. Our findings are based on 16 wide-field photographs taken with Schmidt cameras on March 2-20, with six more, from March 31-April 8, still waiting for analysis. Altogether approximately 700 individual striae were examined on the 16 images, which were scanned and computer processed to enhance the morphology. About 5300 stria points, or some 7-8 points per stria per image on the average, were measured and their astrometric positions determined and subsequently converted to a Cartesian coordinate system, aligned with the comet's projected radius vector and centered on the nucleus. The evolution of the striated tail has been studied using the Sekanina-Farrell fragmentation hypothesis (AJ 85, 1538, 1980), previously applied to other comets. This two-step model is characterized by the time of release from the nucleus of a parent object (or objects) whose motion is assumed to have been subjected to a constant repulsive acceleration betap (presumably due to solar radiation pressure) until the time of fragmentation.

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