Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jul 1988
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988a%26a...200..225r&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 200, no. 1-2, July 1988, p. 225-247. Research supported by AN SSSR.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Comet Nuclei, Cosmic Dust, Halley'S Comet, Vega Project, Flux Density, Fourier Transformation, Solar Radiation
Scientific paper
In this paper, the large-scale enhancements of about 50 s duration in the flux of submicron dust particles from Comet P/Halley recorded by the Dust Counter and Mass Analyzer carried aboard the two Vega spaceprobes are traced back to their source departure points on the nucleus. Evidence is presented that such enhancements which correspond to regions of enhanced particle density in the coma with spatial widths of about 4000 km, are superimposed upon a background flux distribution which is well described by a simple fountain model. Thus, dust production on the sunlit hemisphere of the nucleus is characterized by discrete jet sources superimposed upon relatively low-level isotropic emission. The jet sources at the nucleus responsible for the major enhancements in recorded particle impact rates are narrow and discrete, with each jet accelerating about 10 to the -13th g particles to a narrow range of terminal velocities which decrease with increasing particle mass.
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