The side-ray systems of Comet Bennett, 1970 March 7-18

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Sep 1992

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Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 104, no. 3, Sept. 1992, p. 1207-1215.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Astronomical Photography, Comet Tails, Cometary Magnetospheres, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Solar Wind, Halley'S Comet, Random Walk

Scientific paper

The formation of side rays of Comet Bennett is examined on the basis of Curtis Schmidt plates taken on March 7-18, 1970. The configuration of these arrays is reported, and the extent of their conformity to a mutually consistent pattern on the sky and to the familiar ray-folding phenomenon is examined. The structure of the side-ray systems is compared with a model of magnetically channeled outflow (MCO) in which rays are considered as tracers of field lines lying in the plane of the IMF at the comet and draped about its head. The familiar anticorrelation between lengths of side rays and distances from the tail axis is found to be inconsistent with a modified MCO in which the planes of successive rays are random walked about the sun-comet line by tangential discontinuities in the IMF.

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