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20182025
most citedThe birth and growth of a solar wind cavity around a comet -- Rosetta observations

76 citations · 186 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

physics.comp-ph2025

Coalescing MPI communication in 6D Vlasov simulations: solving ghost domains in Vlasiator

Markus Battarbee, Urs Ganse, Yann Pfau-Kempf +3

High-performance computing is used for diverse simulations, some of which parallelize over the Message Passing Interface (MPI) with ease, whilst others may have challenges related…

physics.comp-ph2024

Porting the grid-based 3D+3V hybrid-Vlasov kinetic plasma simulation Vlasiator to heterogeneous GPU architectures

Markus Battarbee, Konstantinos Papadakis, Urs Ganse +5

Vlasiator is a space plasma simulation code which models near-Earth ion-kinetic dynamics in three spatial and three velocity dimensions. It is highly parallelized, modeling the Vla…

physics.plasm-ph2023★ 6 cited

Graph Representation of the Magnetic Field Topology in High-Fidelity Plasma Simulations for Machine Learning Applications

Ioanna Bouri, Fanni Franssila, Markku Alho +4

Topological analysis of the magnetic field in simulated plasmas allows the study of various physical phenomena in a wide range of settings. One such application is magnetic reconne…

physics.space-ph2023

First 3D hybrid-Vlasov global simulation of auroral proton precipitation and comparison with satellite observations

Maxime Grandin, Thijs Luttikhuis, Markus Battarbee +15

The precipitation of charged particles from the magnetosphere into the ionosphere is one of the crucial coupling mechanisms between these two regions of geospace and is associated…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 3 cited

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…

physics.space-ph2019★ 4 cited

Solar flares observed by Rosetta at comet 67P

N. J. T. Edberg, F. L. Johansson, A. I. Eriksson +6

Context. The Rosetta spacecraft made continuous measurements of the coma of comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) for more than two years. The plasma in the coma appeared very dyn…

physics.space-ph2019★ 23 cited

Solar wind charge exchange in cometary atmospheres. I. Charge-changing and ionization cross sections for He and H particles in HO

Cyril Simon Wedlund, Dennis Bodewits, Markku Alho +7

Solar wind charge-changing reactions are of paramount importance to the physico-chemistry of the atmosphere of a comet, mass-loading the solar wind through an effective conversion…

physics.space-ph2019★ 6 cited

Solar wind charge exchange in cometary atmospheres III. Results from the Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Cyril Simon Wedlund, Etienne Behar, Hans Nilsson +12

Solar wind charge-changing reactions are of paramount importance to the physico-chemistry of the atmosphere of a comet. The ESA/Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (…

physics.space-ph2019★ 16 cited

Solar wind charge exchange in cometary atmospheres. II. Analytical model

Cyril Simon Wedlund, E. Behar, E. Kallio +7

Solar wind charge-changing reactions are of paramount importance to the physico-chemistry of the atmosphere of a comet because they mass-load the solar wind through an effective co…

physics.space-ph2018★ 52 cited

CME impact on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Niklas J. T. Edberg, M. Alho, M. André +22

We present Rosetta observations from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko during the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME impacted on 5-6 Oct 2015, when Rosetta was about 80…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 76 cited

The birth and growth of a solar wind cavity around a comet -- Rosetta observations

E. Behar, H. Nilsson, M. Alho +2

The Rosetta mission provided detailed observations of the growth of a cavity in the solar wind around comet 67P/CG. As the comet approached the Sun, the plasma of cometary origin g…