Statistics – Computation
Scientific paper
Apr 2003
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EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #3588
Statistics
Computation
Scientific paper
The new physical model of Rodionov et al. (Planetary and Space Sci., 50, 983, 2002) that describes the cometary activity based on a 3-d collisional gas dynamical model has been successfully applied to account for the dust features observed by the cameras flying onboard of the VEGA and Giotto probes during the encounter with comet Halley. This indicates, in particular, that these structures are dominantly controlled by the nucleus topography. An upgraded version of this model has been recently developed and is being applied to the vast body of data gathered in 1986 on comet Halley. This new version is tridimensional as previously, and, in addition, time-dependent. This allows the exact, self-consistent computation of the whole coma structure (primary and daughter molecules, dust), allowing to study its dependence upon nucleus shape, composition, and rotation. The results presented here assume that the coma is formed by solar-driven sublimation of a homogeneous dusty-ice nucleus with shape and rotational state derived for P/Halley. The results are, however, of quite general significance -- in particular they remain valid for different shapes and for inhomogeneous nucleus. This presentation focuses on the time dependence of the dust and gas features obtained around the nucleus. Movies will summarize the results of the calculations exhibiting the time development of the dust and gas coma and its relation to the surface orography for a rotating nucleus. The effect of nucleus activity on its rotational motion, and possible constraints hampering the observation of the activity will be also analyzed.
Crifo Jean-François
Fulle Marco
Rodionov Alexander V.
Szegö Karoly
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