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  • Planetology: Comets and Small Bodies: Plasma and MHD instabilities
  • Space Plasma Physics: Turbulence

Abstract

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 13, NO. 2, PP. 85-88, 1986
doi:10.1029/GL013i002p00085

MHD turbulence in the solar wind‐comet interaction region

R. Z. Sagdeev

Space Research Institute, Moscow

V. D. Shapiro

Space Research Institute, Moscow

V. I. Shevchenko

Space Research Institute, Moscow

K. Szego

Central Research Institute for Physics, H‐1525 Budapest 114, p.o.b. 49

One of the most striking features discovered during the encounter of space probe ICE and comet Giacobini‐Zinner was the presence of intensive MHD turbulence even at large distances from the comet. In this paper it is shown that the mass loading of the solar wind with cometary ions can cause such a phenomenon.

Received 16 December 1985; accepted 2 January 1986; .

Citation: Sagdeev, R. Z., V. D. Shapiro, V. I. Shevchenko, and K. Szego (1986), MHD turbulence in the solar wind‐comet interaction region, Geophys. Res. Lett., 13(2), 85–88, doi:10.1029/GL013i002p00085.

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