Magnetic field and the ionic tail of comet Halley

dc.contributor.author	Krishan, V
dc.contributor.author	Ramadurai, S
dc.date.accessioned	2006-04-11T07:40:58Z
dc.date.available	2006-04-11T07:40:58Z
dc.date.issued	1988-03
dc.identifier.citation	BASI, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 10-14	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/936
dc.description.abstract	The space missions to comet Halley have reported an increase of the magnetic field from (12-15) x 10 to the -5th gauss, characteristic of the interplanetary solar wind, to a peak field strength of (70-80) x 10 to the -5th gauss within the environment of comet Halley. The large magnetic field if characteristic of tail would lead to the growth of plasma instabilities excited in the cometary tail containing twisted magnetic fields, resulting in helical structures inclined at small angles to the tail boundary	en
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Astronomical Society of Indian	en
dc.subject	Comet Halley	en
dc.subject	Ion tail	en
dc.subject	Instabilities	en
dc.title	Magnetic field and the ionic tail of comet Halley	en
dc.type	Article	en