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Title: Acceleration of cometary plasma tails
Authors: Kundt, W
Krishan, V
Keywords: Comet Tails
Plasma Acceleration
Plasma Interactions
Solar Wind
Cometary Atmospheres
Magnetic Field Configurations
Magnetohydrodynamics
Momentum Transfer
Issue Date: Apr-1988
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Citation: Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 143, No. 2, pp. 387 - 391
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.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2248/4303
ISSN: 0004-640X
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