Structure and dynamics of the plasma tail of comet P/Halley. I - Knot event on December 31, 1985

Details Structure and dynamics of the plasma tail of comet P/Halley. I - Knot event on December 31, 1985 Structure and dynamics of the plasma tail of comet P/Halley. I - Knot event on December 31, 1985

Nov 1987

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Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 187, no. 1-2, Nov. 1987, p. 209-214.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Comet Tails, Flow Geometry, Halley'S Comet, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Plasma Dynamics, Solar Wind, Astronomical Photography, Dynamic Pressure, Flow Velocity, Heliosphere, Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction, Solar Magnetic Field

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On the basis of about 500 photographs of comet Halley taken by many observers, Saito et al. (1986) classified the detected disturbances of the plasma tail as outstanding rays, streamer, helix, kink, arcade, and disconnection event (DE). In this paper, the interaction of the solar wind with the plasma tail of Comet P/Halley is examined by using results of observations by the Sakigake spacecraft of the December 31, 1985 event, which included various disturbances and one DE-like knot. On the basis of twenty photographs taken on December 31 by Japanese astronomers, the dynamic pressure model proposed by Saito et al. (1986) is examined, and the mechnism of the knot event that appeared in the plasma tail of the comet on December 31, is explained.

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