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Model of the comet outbursts based on a fragmentation of ice grains in its atmosphere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

D.A. Andrienko
Affiliation:
Kiev University
I.I. Mischishina
Affiliation:
Kiev University

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Outbursts of the comet's brightness play a significant role in the study of the physical nature and evolution of comets. The causes of cometary outbursts are still not properly understood. It is known, however, that there is correlation between the outbursts and the high-velocity flux of solar wind. The evidences of such causal relationship are the following: the existence of the correlation between the geomagnetic perturbations and the outburst activity of the comets [1]; two-peaks distribution of the comet's outbursts, which depends on the 11-year solar cycle phase with maxima at phases 0.2–0.3 and 0.7–0.8, in coincidence with the distribution of physical characteristics of high-velocity fluxes [2]; the repeated character of the outbursts with main intervals of 7–8, 14–15, 22–24 and 30 days, this corresponds to the four-sector structure of the interplanetary magnetic field [3].

Type
Part V - Comets and Meteors
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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