Comet P/Giacobini-Zinner electron and H2O column densities from ICE and ground-based observations

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Dec 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986esasp.250a.511m&link_type=abstract

In ESA Proceedings of the 20th ESLAB Symposium on the Exploration of Halley's Comet. Volume 1: Plasma and Gas p 511-514 (SEE N87

Computer Science

Electron Density Profiles, Giacobini-Zinner Comet, International Sun Earth Explorer 3, Space Observations (From Earth), Water, Comet Tails, Plasma Diagnostics, Ratios

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The authors compare an H2O+ emission profile extracted from an optical CCD spectrogram obtained during the ICE/Giacobini-Zinner encounter to the electron density profile deduced from in-situ measurements by the radio experiment aboard ICE. They conclude that the electrons and the H2O+ ions are distributed similarly 9600 km tailward from the cometary nucleus, that the ratio of number densities of H2O+ ions to electrons is about 1/4 at this point, and that the width of the plasma sheet is about 16,000 km.

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