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Interaction of the Cometary Dust with the Solar Wind and Cometary Plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

W.-H. Ip ,
H. Kimura  and
C.-P. Liu
W.-H. Ip
Affiliation:
Max-Planck- Institut für Aeronomie, D-3411 Katlenburg-Lindau, Federal Republic of Germany
H. Kimura
Affiliation:
Max-Planck- Institut für Aeronomie, D-3411 Katlenburg-Lindau, Federal Republic of Germany
C.-P. Liu
Affiliation:
Max-Planck- Institut für Aeronomie, D-3411 Katlenburg-Lindau, Federal Republic of Germany

Abstract

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Along the lines of previous studies on the cometary dust-plasma interaction processes, we evaluate the electromagnetic effect of submicron dust in the coma and in the dust tail. The possible occurence of electrostatic disruption of charged dust in the ion tail is also discussed from theoretical and observational points of view. The relevance of these processes to the formation of striae in the dust tails of several comets is addressed and the conclusion is made that trajectory study of the submicron dust in the striae must take into account the action of the interplanetary electric field.

Type
VI. Dust – Plasma Interactions
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 85: Properties and Interactions of Interplanetary Dust , 1985 , pp. 325 - 328
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1985

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