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Photometric measurements of photographic images of comet C/1987 P1 Bradfield have been carried out with a flat-bed scanner equipped with a slide module. Lengthwise and transverse photometric profiles of the cometary plasma tail have been obtained. Magnetic field induction and some other physical characteristics of the cometary plasma tail observed in November 1987 have been estimated with the use of the diffusion model for a cometary tail by Shul’man and Nazarchuk (1968). It has been shown that the scanned images of comets can be used for estimating the physical characteristics of cometary tails.
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Original Russian Text © S.A. Borysenko, Yu.V. Sizonenko, I.V. Luk’yanyk, A.V. Ivanova, A.D. Voitsekhovskaya, T.P. Sergeeva, A.V. Golovin, 2011, published in Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel, 2011, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 53–62.
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Borysenko, S.A., Sizonenko, Y.V., Luk’yanyk, I.V. et al. Physical conditions in the plasma tail of comet C/1987 P1 bradfield. Kinemat. Phys. Celest. Bodies 27, 92–97 (2011). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0884591311020024
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