The evolution of CN emission in Halley's comet with heliocentric distance

Prieto, M.; Garcia, C.; Garzon, F.; Kidger, M.
Bibliographical reference

In ESA, Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Diversity and Similarity of Comets p 561-565 (SEE N88-21884 14-91)

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9
1987
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4
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1
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The authors have made observations of the spectrum of comet Halley on various dates between September 1985 and December 1986, obtaining multipositional long-slit absolute spectrophotometry of the inner region of the coma in the visible range. They present a study of the emission in the 3883 Å line of the (0-0) transition of CN. The observed CN surface brightness spatial distribution is used to obtain the distribution of molecules and is fitted to Haser's model to obtain scale lengths.