5 papers
The evolution of the electron number density in the coma of comet 67P at the location of Rosetta from 2015 November through 2016 March
Erik Vigren, Niklas J. T. Edberg, Anders I. Eriksson +6
A comet ionospheric model assuming the plasma to move radially outward with the same bulk speed as the neutral gas and not being subject to severe reduction through dissociative re…
Solar wind interaction with comet 67P: impacts of corotating interaction regions
Niklas J. T. Edberg, A. I. Eriksson, E. Odelstad +18
We present observations from the Rosetta Plasma Consortium of the effects of stormy solar wind on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Four corotating interaction regions (CIRs), where…
Ion velocity and electron temperature inside and around the diamagnetic cavity of comet 67P
Elias Odelstad, Anders I. Eriksson, Fredrik L. Johansson +7
A major point of interest in cometary plasma physics has been the diamagnetic cavity, an unmagnetized region in the inner-most part of the coma. Here, we combine Langmuir and Mutua…
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…