Primitive objects like comets hold important information on the material that formed our solar
system. Several comets have been visited by spacecraft and many more have been …

The Rosetta mission provides an unprecedented possibility to study the interaction of
comets with the solar wind. As the spacecraft accompanies comet 67P/Churyumov …

Context. The properties of the smallest subunits of cometary dust contain information on their
origin and clues to the formation of planetesimals and planets. Compared to interplanetary …

We discuss observations of the journey throughout the Solar System of a large
interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) that was ejected at the Sun on 14 October …

We propose to identify the main sources of ionization of the plasma in the coma of comet
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at different locations in the coma and to quantify their relative …

The Rosetta mission shall accompany comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from a
heliocentric distance of> 3.6 astronomical units through perihelion passage at 1.25 …

In the advent of the Rosetta arrival at the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, we present
a global 3D hybrid simulation model of the cometary plasma interaction which resolves the …

Context. Strong electron cooling on the neutral gas in cometary comae has been predicted
for a long time, but actual measurements of low electron temperature are scarce. Aims. Our …

We use measurements from the Rosetta plasma consortium Langmuir probe and mutual
impedance probe to study the spatial distribution of low‐energy plasma in the near‐nucleus …

One of the primary objectives of the Rosetta Plasma Consortium, a suite of five plasma
instruments on-board the Rosetta spacecraft, is to observe the formation and evolution of …