Acceleration of cometary plasma tails

dc.contributor.author	Kundt, W
dc.contributor.author	Krishan, V
dc.date.accessioned	2009-01-29T14:32:54Z
dc.date.available	2009-01-29T14:32:54Z
dc.date.issued	1988-04
dc.identifier.citation	Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 143, No. 2, pp. 387 - 391	en
dc.identifier.issn	0004-640X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/4303
dc.description.abstract	Cometary plasma tails are accelerated by the solar wind to ≈ half its velocity, corresponding to some 10/sup2 times the solar-wind momentum density. The authors corroborate Alfvén's (1957) "wind-sock" mechanism according to which the momentum transfer is brought about by magnetic rigidity.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers	en
dc.relation.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00637150	en
dc.relation.uri	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1988Ap%26SS.143..387K	en
dc.subject	Comet Tails	en
dc.subject	Plasma Acceleration	en
dc.subject	Plasma Interactions	en
dc.subject	Solar Wind	en
dc.subject	Cometary Atmospheres	en
dc.subject	Magnetic Field Configurations	en
dc.subject	Magnetohydrodynamics	en
dc.subject	Momentum Transfer	en
dc.title	Acceleration of cometary plasma tails	en
dc.type	Article	en