2 papers
astro-ph.EP2025
Dust shells and dark linear structures on dust tails of historical and recent long-period comets
Fernando Moreno, Emmanuel Jehin
Context. Dust halos or shells, along with linear dark structures along the axes of dust tails, are commonly observed in many long-period comets near perihelion. Examples range from…
astro-ph.EP2025
COMetary dust TAIL Simulator (COMTAILS): A computer code to generate comet dust tail brightness images
Fernando Moreno
Context. We present the COMetary dust TAIL Simulator (COMTAILS), a numerical Monte Carlo code to generate images of dust tail brightness from comets and active asteroids in the Sol…