Interaction of the solar wind with comets: a Rosetta perspective

KH Glassmeier - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Rosetta mission provides an unprecedented possibility to study the interaction of
comets with the solar wind. As the spacecraft accompanies comet 67P/Churyumov …

Structure and evolution of the diamagnetic cavity at comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

C Goetz, C Koenders, KC Hansen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The long duration of the Rosetta mission allows us to study the evolution of the diamagnetic
cavity at comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in detail. From 2015 April to 2016 February …

The plasma environment of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

C Goetz, E Behar, A Beth, D Bodewits, S Bromley… - Space Science …, 2022 - Springer
The environment of a comet is a fascinating and unique laboratory to study plasma
processes and the formation of structures such as shocks and discontinuities from electron …

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

E Behar, H Nilsson, M Alho, C Goetz… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The Rosetta mission provided detailed observations of the growth of a cavity in the solar
wind around comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. As the comet approached the Sun, the …

Hybrid modelling of cometary plasma environments-I. Impact of photoionisation, charge exchange, and electron ionisation on bow shock and cometopause at 67P …

CS Wedlund, M Alho, G Gronoff, E Kallio… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. The ESA/Rosetta mission made it possible to monitor the plasma environment of a
comet, from near aphelion to perihelion conditions. To understand the complex dynamics …

Electron and ion dynamics of the solar wind interaction with a weakly outgassing comet

J Deca, A Divin, P Henri, A Eriksson, S Markidis… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
Using a 3D fully kinetic approach, we disentangle and explain the ion and electron
dynamics of the solar wind interaction with a weakly outgassing comet. We show that, to first …

Spatial variations of brightness, colour and polarization of dust in comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

VK Rosenbush, OV Ivanova, NN Kiselev… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present post-perihelion photometric and polarimetric observations of comet
67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko performed at the 6-m telescope of the SAO RAS in the g …

Average cometary ion flow pattern in the vicinity of comet 67P from moment data

H Nilsson, H Williamson, S Bergman… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Average flow patterns of ions around comet 67P detected by the RPC-ICA instrument
onboard Rosetta are presented both as a time series and as a spatial distribution of the …

Building a weakly outgassing comet from a generalized Ohm's law

J Deca, P Henri, A Divin, A Eriksson, M Galand… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
When a weakly outgassing comet is sufficiently close to the Sun, the formation of an ionized
coma results in solar wind mass loading and magnetic field draping around its nucleus …

Evolution of the magnetic field at comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

C Goetz, M Volwerk, I Richter… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The magnetic field at a comet is significantly influenced by the solar wind on one side and
the outgassing rate on the other. There are no simple spatial models for the magnetic field …