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Table 2

Most important values of basic parameters that were used in numerical simulations.

Parameter Value(s) Reference
Radius of the comet (m) RN = 1500 Adopted value
Emissivity (−) ϵ = 0.9 (Wesołowski 2021a)
Radius of the coma (m) Rc = 1 × 108 (Gronkowski & Wesołowski 2015)
Power index (−) q = 3.7 (Lin et al. 2017)
Average radius of cometary particles (m) rgr = 1.59 × 10−6 (Wesołowski et al. 2020b)
Solar zenithal angle (º) ζ = 41.81 (Wesołowski 2021c)
Porosity of the particles (−) ψ = 0.7 (Groussin et al. 2019)
Porosity of the dust layer (−) ψd = 0.42 (Kossacki et al. 2022a)
Thickness of layer (m) d = 3 × 10−3 (Kossacki et al. 2022a)
Radius of pores (m) rp = 0.21 × 10−3 (Kossacki et al. 2022b)
Total surface of nucleus (m) SN = 2.83 × 107 Calculated value
Molar mass of water ice (kg) µ = 0.018 Adopted value
Universal gas constant (J mol−1 K−1) Rg = 8.314 Adopted value
Latent heat of sublimation (J kg−1) H = 2.8 × 106 (Groussin & Lamy 2003)
Refractive index for cometary ice particles (−) nice = 1.31 + 0.005i Adopted value
Scattering coefficient for ice particles (−) Qice = 2.181 Calculated value based on Eq. (10) (Wesołowski et al. 2020a)
Asymmetry coefficient (−) gice = 0.874 Calculated value based on Eq. (17) (Wesołowski et al. 2020a)
Phase function (−) p(θ)i = 0.289 Calculated value based on Eq. (16) (Wesołowski et al. 2020a)
Dust-to-gas mass ratio of the t1 phase (−) κ1=1 (Gronkowski & Wesołowski 2015; Choukroun et al. 2020)
Dust-to-gas mass ratio of the t2 phase (−) κ2=3 Adopted value
Heat conductivity (Wm−1 K−1) λ(T)= 3 × 10−2 (Fulle et al. 2020)
Average gradient of the temperature (K cm−1 ) T = 4 (Fulle et al. 2020)
Density of the compact ice (kg m−3) ϱgr = 933 (Wesołowski et al. 2022)
Density of the agglomerate (kg m−3) ϱagl = 875 Calculated value based on Eq. (11) (Wesołowski et al. 2022)
Bulk density of the tested sand (kg m−3) ϱsand = 2724 ± 10 (Wesołowski et al. 2022)
Bulk density of the tested charcoal (kg m−3) ϱcharcoal = 744 ± 10 (Wesołowski et al. 2022)
Bulk density of the tested ash (kg m−3) ϱash = 550 ± 10 Adopted value
Bolometric albedo for sand (%) AB(sand) = 28.47 Calculated value based on Fig. 5 and Eq. (1) in this paper
Bolometric albedo for ash (%) AB(ash) = 21.09 Calculated value based on Fig. 5 and Eq. (1) in this paper
Bolometric albedo for charcoal (%) AB(charcoal) = 2.15 Calculated value based on Fig. 5 and Eq. (1) in this paper
Bolometric albedo for sample A (%) AB(A)= 19.40 Calculated value based on Fig. 6 and Eq. (1) in this paper
Bolometric albedo for sample B (%) AB(B) = 7.35 Calculated value based on Fig. 6 and Eq. (1) in this paper
Bolometric albedo for sample C (%) AB(C) = 3.45 Calculated value based on Fig. 6 and Eq. (1) in this paper
Geometric albedo for charcoal (%) pv(charcoal) = 6.76 Calculated value based on Fig. 5, Eq. (1) and Eq. (2) in this paper
Geometric albedo for sample C (%) Pv(C) = 10.84 Calculated value based on Fig. 6, Eq. (1) and Eq. (2) in this paper

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