Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jul 1978
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1978apj...223..655n&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 223, July 15, 1978, p. 655-670.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
65
Comet Tails, Interplanetary Gas, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Lines Of Force, Solar Wind, Astronomical Models, Filaments, Halley'S Comet, Ionospheres, Kohoutek Comet, Plasma Dynamics
Scientific paper
Attention is focused on a form of cometary activity which has been known for some time but is poorly understood: the discarding of a plasma tail by a comet. A link is found between plasma-tail rejections and conditions in the solar wind. A model is presented in which a disconnected tail is the end result of magnetic-field-line reconnection in the cometary ionosphere caused by the traversal of a magnetic sector boundary. Observations of plasma tails appear to be the best and only method at present of mapping the interplanetary sector structure out of the ecliptic plane.
Brandt Jack C.
Niedner Malcolm B. Jr.
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