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Scientific paper
Aug 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986georl..13..884m&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 13, Aug. 1986, p. 884-887.
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Comets, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Plasma-Particle Interactions, Solar Wind, Space Environment Simulation, Hydrogen Plasma, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Field Configurations
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A laboratory simulation experiment to study the interaction between a cometary plasma and the solar wind has been performed using the UCR-T1 space simulation facility (dia. 1.3 m, length 11 m). Intense plasma flow simulating the solar wind interacts with another light-emitting plasma composed of Ba, Sr, and/or C by a plasma emitter which simulates a cometary coma. The purposes of this experiment are to investigate how the solar wind parameters contribute to the formation of the cometary ion tail and to determine the magnetic field structure of a comet. In order to estimate the solar wind parameters by ground-based observations of actual comets, knowledges of such relationships are essential. The experimental results show that the interplanetary magnetic field of the solar wind is very important in forming the cometary tail.
Baum P. J.
Kamin G.
Minami Shigeyuki
White Steven R.
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