Published April 1986 | Version v1
Journal article

Halo of icy bodies as a possible source of flareups of cometary brightness - Mathematical model of a flareup

  • 1. Kievskii Gosudarstvennyi Universitet, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR

Description

A mathematical model is proposed for the mechanism of flareups of the brightness of comets, based on the process of fragmentation of unstable icy bodies contained in their atmospheres under the action of particles of high-velocity corpuscular streams of the solar wind. The model well explains the set of phenomena observed during flareups of cometary brightness. 27 references

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Sov. Astron. (Engl. Transl.)
Journal Volume
30
Series
Sov. Astron. (Engl. Transl.).
Journal Page Range
204-211
ISSN
0038-5301
CODEN
SAAJA

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