Dust-gas interaction deduced from Halley multicolour camera observations

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Oct 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986esla.sympq....h&link_type=abstract

Presented at the 20th ESLAB Symposium, Heidelberg, West Germany, 27 Oct. 1986

Computer Science

Cameras, Comet Heads, Comet Tails, Cosmic Dust, Gases, Halley'S Comet, Observation, Asymmetry, Gas-Solid Interactions, Water

Scientific paper

The dust and gas productions of Comet Halley were measured by the dust counter and the mass spectrometers on the Giotto spacecraft. These instruments give only little information about the spatial asymmetry of the activity. The asymmetry in the dust production is clearly evident from the dust jets seen in the Halley Multicolor Camera images. Since the dust is entrained by the gas, production must be similarly asymmetric. The intensity profiles along and across several dust jets are related to their source regions on the nucleus. Properties of the dust jets are investigated. A few compact, but highly active source regions on the nucleus produce most of the visible dust and can account for most of the gas produced by the comet.

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