A radio source occultation experiment with comet Austin 1982g, with unusual results

Details A radio source occultation experiment with comet Austin 1982g, with unusual results A radio source occultation experiment with comet Austin 1982g, with unusual results

Aug 1984

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 283, Aug. 15, 1984, p. 895-904.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Comet Heads, Comet Tails, Radio Occultation, Radio Sources (Astronomy), Space Plasmas, Centimeter Waves, Earth Ionosphere, Electron Density Profiles, Faraday Effect, Field Strength

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A radio source occultation by comet Austin 1982g was observed on September 15-16, 1982. A change in the apparent position of 1242 + 41 by 1.3 arcsec occurred when the source was 220,000 km away from the cometary ion tail. If this change was due to refraction by the cometary plasma, it indicates an electron density of the plasma of about 10,000/cu cm. When the radio source was on the other side of the plasma tail, at a distance of 230,000 km, the position angle of the electric vector of the radio source changed gradually over about 140 deg within two hours. This observation cannot be explained in terms of ionospheric Faraday rotation, and results from either an intrinsic change in the radio source or Faraday rotation in the cometary plasma due to a change in the direction and/or strength of the magnetic field. In the latter case, the cometary coma must have an electron density and a magnetic field strength orders of magnitude larger than current theories predict.

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