The cyan shells of Comet P/Halley

Details The cyan shells of Comet P/Halley The cyan shells of Comet P/Halley

Dec 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986esasp.250c.495s&link_type=abstract

In ESA, Proceedings of the 20th ESLAB Symposium on the Exploration of Halley's Comet. Volume 3: Posters p 495-498 (SEE N87-26714

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Comet Tails, Cyano Compounds, Gas Expansion, Halley'S Comet, Plasma Diagnostics, Astronomical Photography, Astronomical Photometry, Electrophotometry, Space Observations (From Earth), Spherical Shells

Scientific paper

During the Halley Monitoring Program at La Silla from Feb. 17 to Apr. 17, 1986 a striking phenomenon in the coma of comet Halley was observed. In the light of the neutral CN-radical a continuous formation and expansion of gas-shells could be observed. These shells can be followed for several days until reaching a diameter of 106km. The gas-expansion velocity decreases with increasing heliocentric distance from 1 km/s in early March to 0.8 km/s in April. Basically, the shells are spherical, although often modified by an elliptic or spiraloid distortion. During expansion, their centres move in the direction of the comet's tail. The initial starting points are more or less equally spaced in time. This indicates a release of gas from isolated areas on the nucleus and allows an independent determination of the rotation-period.

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