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3.6 Dust Emission from Comet Kohoutek (1973f) at Large Distances from the Sun

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

E. Grün ,
J. Kissel  and
H.-J. Hoffmann
E. Grün
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, FRG
J. Kissel
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, FRG
H.-J. Hoffmann
Affiliation:
Physikalisches Institut, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, FRG

Abstract

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During a period of 60 days around the time when the HEOS 2 satellite penetrated the orbital plane of Comet Kohoutek (1973f) the micro-meteoroid experiment on board registered an excessive particle flux. These particles are identified with those originated in Comet Kohoutek. Orbit calculations show that their emission occurred outside 3.8 AU from the sun. The ratio of the force of radiation pressure to that of gravity of these particles was determined to ß =1 ± 0.1, their mass has been measured from the satellite data (10−13g to 10−11 g). The velocity and the rate of dust particles emitted from the comet is studied on the basis of the theory of dust comets formulated by Finson and Probstein. An emission rate of appr. 1.2 × 1018 particles per second in the size range corresponding to 0.9 ≤ ß < 1.1 and an emission velocity of appr. 0.5 km/sec match best the observed data.

Type
3 Cometary Dust
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 31: Interplanetary Dust and Zodiacal Light , 1976 , pp. 334 - 338
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1976

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