Fig. 18.

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Lyman-α intensity distribution along the cometary tail, plotted as a function of distance from the location of the emission peak. Because of the comet’s relative speed with respect to the solar wind, the location of the comet nucleus is shifted by about 0.1 R with respect to the location of the Lyman-α emission peak.

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