Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jul 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005mnras.360.1153g&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 360, Issue 3, pp. 1153-1161.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Comets: General, Comets: Individual: Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1
Scientific paper
The comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 is an exceptional comet as far as cometary outbursts are concerned. Despite its large distance from the Sun (about 6 au), it shows quasi-regular outburst activity, usually once or twice a year. Up to now there has not been a generally accepted model that explains this phenomenon. In the first part of this paper, the most well-known hypotheses that attempt to explain the outburst activity of this comet are presented and critically analysed. The main aim of this paper is to present a model for the outburst activity of this comet. The model is based on the global analysis of the internal structure and physical and chemical processes that take place in the cometary nucleus. Numerical calculations were carried out for reasonable assumed values of a large range of cometary characteristics. The obtained results are consistent with observational data.
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