Published February 1986 | Version v1
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Model of the interaction of cometary atmospheres with the solar wind

Creators

  • 1. Institut Kosmicheskikh Issledovanii, Moscow, USSR

Description

A self-consistent mathematical model of solar-wind/cometary-atmosphere (SW/CA) interaction is derived. The model includes bow shock (BS), inner shock (IS), and contact discontinuity (CD) and accounts for SW loading by photoionization of CA neutral particles (dominant in the SW) and CA-ion resonance-charge-exchange effects (dominant in the region between CD and IS). Numerical results for a restricted SW/CA flow problem are presented in graphs. The BS-nucleus distance is shown to depend more on the loading effect than on the CD-nucleus distance. 17 references

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Sov. Astron. (Engl. Transl.)
Journal Volume
30
Series
Sov. Astron. (Engl. Transl.).
Journal Page Range
104-110
ISSN
0038-5301
CODEN
SAAJA

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
18063251
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
COMETS; INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOIONIZATION; SHOCK WAVES; SOLAR WIND
Descriptors DEC
IONIZATION; SOLAR ACTIVITY; STELLAR ACTIVITY; STELLAR WINDS

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Notes
Cover-to-cover translation of Astronomicheskij Zhurnal (USSR).