Acceleration of cometary plasma tails

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Apr 1988

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Astrophysics and Space Science (ISSN 0004-640X), vol. 143, no. 2, April 1988, p. 387-391.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Comet Tails, Plasma Acceleration, Plasma Interactions, Solar Wind, Cometary Atmospheres, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetohydrodynamics, Momentum Transfer

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Cometary plasma tails are accelerated by the solar wind to ≈ half its
velocity, corresponding to some 102 times the solar-wind
momentum density. The authors corroborate Alfvén's (1957)
"wind-sock" mechanism according to which the momentum transfer is
brought about by magnetic rigidity.

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