摘要
An observational result from March 12 to April 15 for comet Hale-Bopp is given in this paper. During this period a fan-shaped erupted region with angular extent of about 100 degrees near the nucleus was seen continually. In addition, a shell structure with at most 5 layers often appeared. It is found that these layers were equal-spaced with a distance of about 2×10 4 km and were moving outward with a speed of about 35 m/s. It is suggested that this phenomenon was possibly a kind of wave created by charged attogram dust grains erupted from the nucleus, which collided with either the solar wind or material of the coma. The propagation period of the wave was about 6 days but the spin of the Comet Hale-Bopp could be very slow and the period was about 3 yr. This spin movement had the opposite direction as its orbital motion.
An observational result from March 12 to April 15 for comet Hale-Bopp is given in this paper. During this period a fan-shaped erupted region with angular extent of about 100 degrees near the nucleus was seen continually. In addition, a shell structure with at most 5 layers often appeared. It is found that these layers were equal-spaced with a distance of about 2×10 4 km and were moving outward with a speed of about 35 m/s. It is suggested that this phenomenon was possibly a kind of wave created by charged attogram dust grains erupted from the nucleus, which collided with either the solar wind or material of the coma. The propagation period of the wave was about 6 days but the spin of the Comet Hale-Bopp could be very slow and the period was about 3 yr. This spin movement had the opposite direction as its orbital motion.
出处
《中国科学院上海天文台年刊》
2000年第S1期92-100,共9页
Annals Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences
基金
theNationalNaturalScienceFoundationofChinawiththecontractnumberof1 9653 0 0 1
