4 papers
Three-Dimensional Modeling of Callisto's Surface Sputtered Exosphere Environment
Audrey Vorburger, Martin Pfleger, Jesper Lindkvist +6
We study the release of various elements from Callisto's surface into its exosphere by plasma sputtering. The cold Jovian plasma is simulated with a 3D plasma-planetary interaction…
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…
Mass-loading of the solar wind at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko -- Observations and modelling
E. Behar, J. Lindkvist, H. Nilsson +4
Context. The first long-term in-situ observation of the plasma environment in the vicinity of a comet, as provided by the European Rosetta spacecraft. Aims. Here we offer character…
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…