Structures far from the head of comet Kohoutek. II - A discussion of the Swan Cloud of January 11 and of the general morphology of cometary plasma tails

Details Structures far from the head of comet Kohoutek. II - A discussion of the Swan Cloud of January 11 and of the general morphology of cometary plasma tails Structures far from the head of comet Kohoutek. II - A discussion of the Swan Cloud of January 11 and of the general morphology of cometary plasma tails

May 1980

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Icarus, vol. 42, May 1980, p. 257-270.

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Comet Heads, Comet Tails, Cosmic Plasma, Kohoutek Comet, Plasma Clouds, Astronomical Photography, Correlation, Photointerpretation, Solar Wind, Comets, Kohoutek Comet, Structure, Comet Tails, Comae, Morphology, Models, Boundary Layers, Photographs, Solar Wind, Comparisons, Rays, Arcade Loops, Swan Cloud, Rordame-Quenisset Comet, Plasmas, Morehouse Comet, Daniel Comet, Condensation, Anomalies, Time Dependency

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Photographs show that the 'Swan Cloud' observed in comet Kohoutek on January 11, 1974 was an advanced stage of a plasma tail disconnection event, of which the rejected tail appeared to decelerate as it receded from the head. The event commenced with the development of strong tail ray activity followed by the actual tail disconnection, the merging of the disconnected tail with the new tail to form the Swan and the formation of arcade loops in the space between closing tail rays. The observed morphological sequence is easily understood in the sector boundary model (Niedner et al., 1978), and the arcade loops are proposed to be reconnected flux tubes between oppositely polarized tail rays in the incipient new tail which followed the disconnection

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