Fig. 16.

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Determination of solar wind speed and proton temperature from the analysis of the Lyman-α intensity distribution. Left: determination of the predominant tail orientation by linear fitting of the peak locations of Gaussian Lyman-α intensity distribution across the tail. Right: determination of the cometary Lyman-α tail semi-aperture angle.
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