Exploration of Halley`s comet. Michael Grewing, Francoise Praderie, Rüdeger Reinhard

XXIII, 984 S. : Ill. (z.T. farb.), graph. Darst. ; 29 cm Zustand: abwischbarer Einband, sehr gut/fine copy --- Inhalt: New information on comet P/Halley as depicted by Giotto di Bondone and other Western artists.- Encounters with comets: discoveries and puzzles in com-etary plasma physics.- The pick-up of cometary protons by the solar wind.- Alfvénic turbulence in the solar wind flow during the approach to comet P/Halley.- General features of comet P/Halley: solar wind interaction from plasma measurements.- The Sakigake/Suisei encounter with comet P/Halley.- Waves in the magnetic field and solar wind flow outside the bow shock at comet P/Halley.- Solar wind flow through the comet P/Halley bow shock.- Macroscopic perturbations of the IMF by P/Halley as seen by the Giotto magnetometer.- Low-frequency magnetic field fluctuations in comet P/Hal-ley’s magnetosheath: Giotto observations.- Fine structure of the magnetic field in comet P/Halley’s coma.- Giotto magnetic-field results on the boundaries of the pile-up region and the magnetic cavity.- Identification of boundaries in the cometary environment from ac electric field measurements.- Dust observations of comet P/Halley by the plasma-wave analyzer.- Comparative study of the low-frequency waves near comet P/Halley during the Vega-1 and Vega-2 fly by s.- Plasma flow in the cometosheath of P/Halley during the encounter of Suisei.- MHD waves detected by ICE at distances ?28 106 km from comet P/Halley: Cometary or solar wind origin.- Plasma-tail activity at the time of the Vega encounters.- Observations of cometary plasma-wave phenomena.- Hydromagnetic waves associated with cometary water group ions: Sakigake observation.- Plasma properties from the upstream region to the cometo-pause of comet P/Halley: Vega observations.- Observations of heavy energetic ions far upstream from comet P/Halley.- Spatial distribution of water-group ions near comet P/Hal-ley observed by Suisei.- An interpretation of the ion pile-up region outside the ionospheric contact surface.- Description of the main boundaries seen by the Giotto electron experiment inside comet P/Halley-solar wind interaction region.- In-situ observations of a bi-modal ion distribution in the outer coma of comet P/Halley.- The composition and radial dependence of cometary ions in the coma of comet P/Halley.- Pick-up ions at comet P/Halley’s bow shock: observations with the IIS spectrometer on Giotto.- Ion temperature and flow profiles in comet P/Halley’s close environment.- The composition and dynamics of cometary ions in the outer coma of comet P/Halley.- Expansion velocity and temperatures of gas and ions measured in the coma of comet P/Halley.- Giotto-IMS observations of ion-flow velocities and temperatures outside the magnetic cavity of comet P/Halley.- The dependence of mass resolution and sensitivity of the PUMA instrument on the energy spread of ions produced by hypervelocity impacts.- Spatial distribution of heavy ions in comet P/Halley’s coma.- Quasi-periodic features and the radial distribution of cometary ions in the cometary plasma region of comet P/Halley.- Electronic spectroscopy and relaxation of some molecular cations of cometary interest. KK-PS22-1 ISBN: 3540173447 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2900.…