Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986georl..13..287s&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 13, March 1986, p. 287-290.
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Comet Tails, Earth Magnetosphere, Giacobini-Zinner Comet, International Sun Earth Explorer 3, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Field Strength, Ion Temperature, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Magnetostatics, Plasma Sheaths, Solar Wind, Space Plasmas, Comets, Giacobini-Zinner, Ice Mission, Spacecraft Observations, Dynamics, Magnetotail, Ionosheath, Pressure, Ions, Temperature, Velocity, Flow, Magnetic Fields, Plasma Sheet, Comae, Calculations
Scientific paper
The data gathered by the International Cometary Explorer during its traversal of Comet Giacobini-Zinner's tail are subjected to stress balance requirements, yielding estimates of unmeasured quantities. It is noted that the comet's tail is embedded in an ionosheath whose static pressure is nearly equal to the solar wind stagnation pressure, leading to a large lobe field strength. A systematic variation is found in the ion temperature across the tail, implying the variation of the pickup velocity of new ions. Axial stress balance yields an expression for the strength of the lobe field which reveals weak variation with axial distance.
Jones Erica D.
Mendis Asoka D.
Siscoe George L.
Slavin James Arthur
Smith Edward. J.
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