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Gas Production Rates in Comets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

A.A. De Almeida
A.A. De Almeida*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Inst. of Astronomy and Geophysics, University of São Paulo C.P. 9638, CEP 01065, São Paulo - Brazil

Abstract

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Emission fluxes of CN, C2 and C3 carbon- bearing molecular species observed in the coma of comets Bennett (1969i ≡ 1970II), West (1975n = 1976VI), P/Halley (1982i), Hartley-Good (1985l) and Bradfield (1987s) are analysed in the framework of Haser model. CN, C2 and C3 production rates are determined using recently derived fluorescence efficiencies. The dependence of CN, C2 and C3 production rates on the heliocentric distance and the possible correlations among these radicals is studied and briefly discussed.

Type
Solar System
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 150: Astrochemistry of Cosmic Phenomena , 1992 , pp. 443 - 445
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1992 

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