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On the Dust Production Rates of Comets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

R. Hellmich
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie, D-3411 Katlenburg-Lindau 3, West Germany
H. U. Keller
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie, D-3411 Katlenburg-Lindau 3, West Germany

Abstract

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The dust production rates of comets on various orbits with perihelia between 0.1 and 0.5 a.u. and semimajor axes between 5 and 40 a.u. are calculated. A new model is used taking into account the screening of solar radiation by the dust and the multiple scattering of the photons. Screening and multiple scattering effects tend to compensate each other over a range of moderate optical thicknesses.

Type
III: The Interplanetary Dust Complex 1. Sources, Evolution, and Dynamics
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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