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RPC observation of the development and evolution of plasma interaction boundaries at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
K. E. Mandt
1, 2
A. Eriksson
3
N. J. T. Edberg
3
C. Koenders
4
T. Broiles
2
S. A. Fuselier
2
C. Goetz
4
Pierre Henri
5
Z. Nemeth
6
M. Alho
7
N. Biver
8
A. Beth
9
J. Burch
2
C. Carr
10
K. Chae
2
A. J. Coates
11, 12
E. Cupido
10
M. Galand
9
R. Goldstein
13
K.-H. Glassmeier
4
K. C. Hansen
14
J. Haiducek
15
E. Kallio
7
Jean-Pierre Lebreton
5
A. Luspay-Kuti
2
P. Mokashi
2
H. Nilsson
3
A. Opitz
16
I. Richter
4
M. Samara
13
K. Szego
6
C.-Y. Tzou
17
M. Volwerk
18
C. Simon Wedlund
19
G. Stenberg Wieser
3
1
UTSA Department of Physics and Astronomy [San Antonio] (United States)
- UTSA - The University of Texas at San Antonio (1 UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249 - United States)
2
Space Science Division [San Antonio] (United States)
- SwRI - Southwest Research Institute [San Antonio] (6220 Culebra Rd, San Antonio, TX 78238 - United States)
3
IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Uppsala] (Box 537 SE-751 21 Uppsala - Sweden)
4
Technische Universität Braunschweig [Braunschweig] (38092 Braunschweig - Germany)
5
LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (3A, Avenue de la Recherche Scientifique 45071 Orléans cedex 2 - France)
- OSUC - Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre : UMS3116 (Campus Géosciences, 1A rue de la Férollerie, 45071 Orléans - France)
- INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU-CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75794 Paris Cedex 16 - France)
- Observatoire de Paris (61 Av de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS - France)
- PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres (60 rue Mazarine 75006 Paris - France)
- UO - Université d'Orléans (Château de la Source - Avenue du Parc Floral - BP 6749 - 45067 Orléans cedex 2 - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMS3116 (France)
- CNES - Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] : UMR 7328 (Siège social : 2 place Maurice Quentin, 75039 Paris - France)
6
Wigner Research Centre for Physics [Budapest] (1121 Budapest
Konkoly-Thege Miklós út 29-33. - Hungary)
- MTA - Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Széchenyi István sqr. 9, 1051 Budapest - Hungary)
7
Department of Radio Science and Engineering (School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto - Finland)
- Aalto University (P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto - Finland)
8
LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (5, place Jules Janssen 92190 MEUDON - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR8109 (France)
- UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (5 rue Thomas-Mann - 75205 Paris cedex 13 - France)
- Observatoire de Paris (61 Av de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS - France)
- PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres (60 rue Mazarine 75006 Paris - France)
- INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU-CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75794 Paris Cedex 16 - France)
- UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (4 place Jussieu - 75005 Paris - France)
9
Department of Physics [Imperial College London] (United Kingdom)
- Imperial College London (South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ - United Kingdom)
10
Blackett Laboratory (Prince Consort Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ - United Kingdom)
- Imperial College London (South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ - United Kingdom)
11
MSSL - Mullard Space Science Laboratory (Holmbury Hill Rd, Dorking RH5 6NT - United Kingdom)
- UCL - University College of London [London] (Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT - United Kingdom)
12
CPS - Centre for Planetary Sciences [UCL/Birkbeck] (Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street, Bloomsbury
London WC1E 7HX - United Kingdom)
- UCL - University College of London [London] (Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT - United Kingdom)
13
SwRI - Southwest Research Institute [San Antonio] (6220 Culebra Rd, San Antonio, TX 78238 - United States)
14
CLaSP - Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (University of Michigan, 2455 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor,
MI-48109-2143 - United States)
- University of Michigan [Ann Arbor] (500 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1090 - United States)
- University of Michigan System (Michigan - United States)
16
IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (9 avenue Colonel Roche 31028 Toulouse - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR5277 (France)
- OMP - Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (14 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 TOULOUSE - France)
- Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (41 Allée Jules Guesde, 31000 Toulouse - France)
- UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (118 route de Narbonne - 31062 Toulouse - France)
- Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (41 Allée Jules Guesde, 31000 Toulouse - France)
- INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers : UMR5277 (INSU-CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75794 Paris Cedex 16 - France)
17
WP - Space Research and Planetary Sciences [Bern) (Switzerland)
- Physikalisches Institut [Bern] (Sidlerstr. 5, 3012 Bern - Switzerland)
- Universität Bern [Bern] (Hochschulstrasse 4 - CH-3012 Bern - Switzerland)
18
IWF - Space Research Institute of Austrian Academy of Sciences (Schmiedlstraße 6, 8042 Graz - Austria)
- OeAW - Austrian Academy of Sciences (Doktor-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Wien - Austria)
19
Department of Physics [Oslo] (P.O. Box 1048, Blindern, 0316 Oslo - Norway)
- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences [Oslo] (Fysikkbygningen Ost, Sem Saelands vei 24, 0371 OSLO - Norway)
- UiO - University of Oslo (P.O 1072 Blindern 0316 Oslo - Norway)
Abstract : 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 plasma interaction regions at the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/CG). Observations made between 2015 April and 2016 February show that solar wind–cometary plasma interaction boundaries and regions formed around 2015 mid-April and lasted through early 2016 January. At least two regions were observed, separated by an ion-neutral collisionopause boundary. The inner region was located on the nucleus side of the boundary and was characterized by low-energy water-group ions, reduced magnetic field pileup and enhanced electron densities. The outer region was located outside of the boundary and was characterized by reduced electron densities, water-group ions that are accelerated to energies above 100 eV and enhanced magnetic field pileup compared to the inner region. The boundary discussed here is outside of the diamagnetic cavity and shows characteristics similar to observations made on-board the Giotto spacecraft in the ion pileup region at 1P/Halley. We find that the boundary is likely to be related to ion-neutral collisions and that its location is influenced by variability in the neutral density and the solar wind dynamic pressure.
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- BIBCODE : 2016MNRAS.462S...9M
- DOI : 10.1093/mnras/stw1736
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K. E. Mandt, A. Eriksson, N. J. T. Edberg, C. Koenders, T. Broiles, et al.. RPC observation of the development and evolution of plasma interaction boundaries at 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy P - Oxford Open Option A, 2016, 462 (Suppl 1), pp.S9-S22. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stw1736⟩. ⟨insu-01373688⟩
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