1. Cyanogen jets in comet Halley
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Ahearn, Michael F, Hoban, Susan, Birch, Peter V, Bowers, Craig, Martin, Ralph, and Klinglesmith, Daniel A., III
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Astrophysics - Abstract
Emission-band and continuum data were obtained of Comet Halley with a CCD camera system at the Perth Observatory during the post-perihelion phase. The image processing techniques which were applied and which revealed jets in the CN band are described. The jets had a spiral shape due to nucleus rotation at a rate which was not precisely determined. Estimates are made of the FWHM and half-width half-maximum spatial extent of the jets. Possible parent molecules of the CN jets are discussed.
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- 1986
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