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@article{Mandt:2016:mnras/stw1736,
author = {Mandt, KE and Eriksson, A and Edberg, NJT and Koenders, C and Broiles, T and Fuselier, SA and Henri, P and Nemeth, Z and Alho, M and Biver, N and Beth, A and Burch, J and Carr, CM and Chae, K and Coates, AJ and Cupido, E and Galand, M and Glassmeier, K-H and Goetz, C and Goldstein, R and Hansen, KC and Haiducek, J and Kallio, E and Lebreton, J-P and Luspay-Kuti, A and Mokashi, P and Nilsson, H and Opitz, A and Richter, I and Samara, M and Szego, K and Tzou, C-Y and Volwerk, M and Simon, Wedlund C and Stenberg, Wieser G},
doi = {mnras/stw1736},
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
pages = {S9--S22},
title = {RPC observation of the development and evolution of plasma interaction boundaries at 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1736},
volume = {462},
year = {2016}
}
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AB - 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.
AU - Mandt,KE
AU - Eriksson,A
AU - Edberg,NJT
AU - Koenders,C
AU - Broiles,T
AU - Fuselier,SA
AU - Henri,P
AU - Nemeth,Z
AU - Alho,M
AU - Biver,N
AU - Beth,A
AU - Burch,J
AU - Carr,CM
AU - Chae,K
AU - Coates,AJ
AU - Cupido,E
AU - Galand,M
AU - Glassmeier,K-H
AU - Goetz,C
AU - Goldstein,R
AU - Hansen,KC
AU - Haiducek,J
AU - Kallio,E
AU - Lebreton,J-P
AU - Luspay-Kuti,A
AU - Mokashi,P
AU - Nilsson,H
AU - Opitz,A
AU - Richter,I
AU - Samara,M
AU - Szego,K
AU - Tzou,C-Y
AU - Volwerk,M
AU - Simon,Wedlund C
AU - Stenberg,Wieser G
DO - mnras/stw1736
EP - 22
PY - 2016///
SN - 1365-2966
SP - 9
TI - RPC observation of the development and evolution of plasma interaction boundaries at 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko
T2 - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1736
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/37042
VL - 462
ER -