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Zur Korrelation zwischen dem Auftreten von Kometenschweifen des Typ I und der solaren Korpuskularstrahlung
Author(s) -
Stumpff P.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
astronomische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-3994
pISSN - 0004-6337
DOI - 10.1002/asna.19612860208
Subject(s) - physics , latitude , astrophysics , astronomy
For 52 comets the correlation between type I‐activity and the latitude of perihelion is studied. In the interval −30° ≦ β ≦ + 30°, 70% of the comets show a type I‐tail. At greater latitudes the appearance of such tails decreases perceptibly. If the formation of type I‐tails is caused by the solar corpuscular radiation as assumed by B IERMANN , then one may conclude that the dispersion of the solar particles is restricted to the latitude interval under consideration up to a distance of at least 0.5 A. U. (the mean perihelion distance of the comets investigated).