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Strong tidal energy dissipation in Saturn at Titan's frequency as an explanation for Iapetus orbit
William Polycarpe, Melaine Saillenfest, Valéry Lainey +3
Natural satellite systems present a large variety of orbital configurations in the solar system. While some are clearly the result of known processes, others still have largely une…
Solar wind dynamics around a comet: The paradigmatic inverse-square-law model
Melaine Saillenfest, Benoît Tabone, Etienne Behar
Aims. Observations of solar protons near comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) by the Rosetta spacecraft can be modelled by the planar motion in an effective magnetic field proport…
Solar wind dynamics around a comet - A 2D semi-analytical kinetic model
E. Behar, B. Tabone, M. Saillenfest +5
We aim at analytically modelling the solar wind proton trajectories during their interaction with a partially ionised cometary atmosphere, not in terms of bulk properties of the fl…
The root of a comet tail - Rosetta ion observations at comet 67P/Churyumov--Gerasimenko
E. Behar, H. Nilsson, P. Henri +7
The first 1000 km of the ion tail of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were explored by the European Rosetta spacecraft, 2.7 au away from the Sun. We characterised the dynamics of bo…