4 papers
In situ evidence of firehose instability in multiple reconnection
Alexandra Alexandrova, Alessandro Retinò, Andrey Divin +7
Energy conversion via reconnecting current sheets is common in space and astrophysical plasmas. Frequently, current sheets disrupt at multiple reconnection sites, leading to the fo…
Cometary Plasma Science -- A White Paper in response to the Voyage 2050 Call by the European Space Agency
Charlotte Götz, Herber Gunell, Martin Volwerk +27
Comets hold the key to the understanding of our solar system, its formation and its evolution, and to the fundamental plasma processes at work both in it and beyond it. A comet nuc…
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…