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Indirect Solar Wind Measurements Using Archival Cometary Tail Observations. / Золотова, Надежда Валерьевна; Sizonenko, Yu.; Вохмянин, Михаил Владимирович; Veselovsky, I.
In: Solar Physics, Vol. 293, No. 5, 85, 01.05.2018.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Indirect Solar Wind Measurements Using Archival Cometary Tail Observations
AU - Золотова, Надежда Валерьевна
AU - Sizonenko, Yu.
AU - Вохмянин, Михаил Владимирович
AU - Veselovsky, I.
N1 - Funding Information: Acknowledgements The reported study was partially funded by RFBR according to the research project 16-02-00300-a. The work by I.S. Veselovsky in the Space Research Institute is supported by the grant RSCF 16-12-10062-a.
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - This paper addresses the problem of the solar wind behaviour during the Maunder minimum. Records on plasma tails of comets can shed light on the physical parameters of the solar wind in the past. We analyse descriptions and drawings of comets between the eleventh and eighteenth century. To distinguish between dust and plasma tails, we address their colour, shape, and orientation. Based on the calculations made by F.A. Bredikhin, we found that cometary tails deviate from the antisolar direction on average by more than 10∘10 degrees, which is typical for dust tails. We also examined the catalogues of Hevelius and Lubieniecki. The first indication of a plasma tail was revealed only for the great comet C/1769 P1.
AB - This paper addresses the problem of the solar wind behaviour during the Maunder minimum. Records on plasma tails of comets can shed light on the physical parameters of the solar wind in the past. We analyse descriptions and drawings of comets between the eleventh and eighteenth century. To distinguish between dust and plasma tails, we address their colour, shape, and orientation. Based on the calculations made by F.A. Bredikhin, we found that cometary tails deviate from the antisolar direction on average by more than 10∘10 degrees, which is typical for dust tails. We also examined the catalogues of Hevelius and Lubieniecki. The first indication of a plasma tail was revealed only for the great comet C/1769 P1.
KW - солнечный ветер
KW - кометы
KW - Comets
KW - Solar wind
UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11207-018-1307-4
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U2 - 10.1007/s11207-018-1307-4
DO - 10.1007/s11207-018-1307-4
M3 - Article
VL - 293
JO - Solar Physics
JF - Solar Physics
SN - 0038-0938
IS - 5
M1 - 85
ER -
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