The effect of solar flares on comet 67P and RPC/LAP

Niklas Edberg , Fredrik Johansson , Anders Eriksson , Cyril Simon Wedlund , Markku Alho , David Andrews , Elias Odelstad , Pierre Henri (1)

1 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace

We study the effect of solar flares on the coma of 67P and on the Rosetta Langmuir probe instruments. We find little evidence of them increasing the plasma density, but they do increase the photoelectron current from the Langmuir probe.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

Niklas Edberg, Fredrik Johansson, Anders Eriksson, Cyril Simon Wedlund, Markku Alho, et al.. The effect of solar flares on comet 67P and RPC/LAP. European Planetary Science Congress 2018, Sep 2018, Berlin, Germany. 18 pp. ⟨insu-03565620⟩