IAU Colloquium 168
Cometary Nuclei in Space and Time

Nanjing, China
May 18-22, 1998

Electronically-submitted Abstracts of Participants


The instability of the cometary plasma tail--the instability in plasma sheet
Liu Lin-Zhong, Purple Moutain Observatory, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, 210008

Let us consider two tangential discontinuity parabolic cylindrical interfaces separating three plasmas for the plasma sheet, the lobes of ion tail, and the solar wind, respectively. The plasma is assumed to be highly conducting and incompressible. The unstable state yields a magnetic field which is perpendicular to the tailward in plasma sheet. Our result is consistent with the ICE plasma observations.



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