Optical depth towards the nucleus of Halley's comet

dc.contributor.author	Shah, G. A
dc.date.accessioned	2006-04-13T04:56:56Z
dc.date.available	2006-04-13T04:56:56Z
dc.date.issued	1989-09
dc.identifier.citation	BASI, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 114-119	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/962
dc.description.abstract	A new relation between the nuclear radius and the optical depth toward the nucleus of Comet Halley has been derived on the basis of the radial variation of the effective area of the grains along the Giotto trajectory in the coma. It is found that the expected optical depth toward the nucleus varies from 0.089 to 0.036 corresponding to the nuclear radius in the range 8 to 16 km.	en
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dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Astronomical Society of Indian	en
dc.subject	Comet Halley	en
dc.subject	Dust grains	en
dc.subject	Nucleus	en
dc.subject	Optical depth in coma	en
dc.title	Optical depth towards the nucleus of Halley's comet	en
dc.type	Article	en