The hydrogen coma of Comet P/Halley observed in Lyman-alpha using sounding rockets

Details The hydrogen coma of Comet P/Halley observed in Lyman-alpha using sounding rockets The hydrogen coma of Comet P/Halley observed in Lyman-alpha using sounding rockets

May 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992a%26a...258..555m&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 258, no. 2, p. 555-565.

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Comet Tails, Halley'S Comet, Hydrogen Atoms, Lyman Alpha Radiation, Sounding Rockets, Field Of View, Flyby Missions, Giotto Mission

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Hydrogen Lyman-alpha (121.6 nm) images of Comet P/Halley were obtained using sounding rockets launched from White Sands Missile Range on 24.5 February and 13.5 March 1986. The second rocket was launched 13 hours before the fly-by of the Giotto spacecraft. An electrographic camera on both flights provided Lyman-alpha images covering a 20 field of view with 3 arcmin resolution. The data from both flights have been compared with a time-dependent model of hydrogen kinetics. To match the measured isophote contours, hydrogen sources with velocity components of 8 km/s and 20 km/s (from OH and H2O respectively) as well as a low velocity component (about 2 km/s) are required. This low velocity component is thought to result from thermalization of fast hydrogen atoms within the collision zone, providing an important diagnostic of temperature and density near the nucleus. Hydrogen production rates of 3.8 x 10 exp 30/s and 1.7 x 10 exp 30/s have been obtained for the two observations.

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