The sodium emission of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in the inner Jovian magnetosphere

Details The sodium emission of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in the inner Jovian magnetosphere The sodium emission of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in the inner Jovian magnetosphere

Nov 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002esasp.500..721b&link_type=abstract

In: Proceedings of Asteroids, Comets, Meteors - ACM 2002. International Conference, 29 July - 2 August 2002, Berlin, Germany. Ed

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Comets, Emission Lines, Sodium

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The time-varying Na D line emission was observed at Crimean Astrophysical Observatory on 20 July 1994 when Q fragment of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 passed through the inner magnetosphere at a distance of about 3 Jovian radii. For explanation of observed luminosity we calculated the emission in D1, D2 lines of Na I for the case of resonance scattering of the solar radiation. Two-level model of Na I atom was adopted and the effects of multiple diffusion have been accounted for. The amount of Na atoms along the line of sight was found to be 1.4×1013 or 6×1015 atom cm-2 depending on parameters of computation.

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