Thermal and photometric model of cometary nucleus

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Comet Nuclei, Cometary Atmospheres, Mathematical Models, Thermodynamics, Astronomical Photometry, Brightness, Dust, Gas Flow, Particle Size Distribution, Radiative Transfer, Solar Radiation

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A model of the physical processes transpiring in a cometary nucleus and the circumnucleus region was devised. In the model it is assumed that an atmosphere consisting of a mixture of gas and fine dust particles, which are transported from the nucleus by the gas flow, is formed at small heliocentric distances during disintegration of the cometary nucleus as a result of heating by solar radiation and sublimation of its volatile components. In the first stage of the work, the temperature distribution in the nucleus was found using a quite complete thermal model of a spherically symmetric nucleus. In the second stage, a photometric model of the gas-dust cometary atmosphere in the circumnucleus region was computed by numerical solution of the radiation transfer equation in the optical wavelength range. A photometric model of the gas-dust atmosphere was computed.

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