Temporal Evolution of the Morphological Tail Structures of Comet P/Halley 1910 II

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Aug 2004

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Boletim da Sociedade Astronómica Brasileira (ISSN 0101-3440), vol.24, no.1, p. 233-233

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Comet P/Halley, Comets, Morphological Tail Structures

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Eight hundred and eighty six images from September 1909 to May 1911 are analysed for the purpose of identifying, measuring and correlating the morphological structures along the plasma tail of P/Halley. These images are from the Atlas of Comet Halley 1910 II (Donn et al., 1986). A systematic visual analysis revealed 304 wavy structures (Yi et al., 1998) along the main tail and 164 along the secondary tails, 41 solitary waves (solitons) (Roberts, 1985), 13 Swan-like tails (Jockers, 1985), 26 disconnection events (DEs) (Voelzke, 2002a), 166 knots (Voelzke et al., 1997) and six shells (Schulz and Schlosser, 1989). While the wavy structures denote undulations or a train of waves, the solitons refer to the formations usually denominated kinks (Tomita et al., 1987). In general, it is possible to associate the occurrence of a DE and/or a Swan-Tail with the occurrence of a knot, but the last one may occur independently. It is also possible to say that the solitons occur in association with the wavy structures, but the reverse is not true. The 26 DEs documented in 26 different images allowed the derivation of two onsets of DEs, i.e., the time when the comet supposedly crossed a frontier between magnetic sectors of the solar wind (Brandt and Snow, 2000). Both onsets of DEs were determined after the perihelion passage with an average of the corrected velocities Vc equal to (57 ± 15) km s-1. The mean value of the corrected wavelength lc measured in 70 different wavy structures is equal to (1.7 ± 0.1) x 10^6 km and the mean amplitude A of the wave (measured in the same 70 wavy structures cited above) is equal to (1.4 ± 0.1) x 10^5 km. The mean value of the corrected cometocentric phase velocity Vpc measured in 20 different wavy structures is equal to (168 ± 28) km s-1. The average value of the corrected velocities Vkc of the knots measured in 36 different images is equal to (128 ± 12) km s-1. There is a tendency for A and lc to increase with increasing cometocentric distance. The preliminary results of this work agree with the earlier research from Voelzke and Matsuura (1998), which analysed comet P/Halley's tail structures in its last apparition in 1986.

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