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AGU: Geophysical Research Letters

 

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  • Interplanetary Physics: Solar wind plasma
  • Planetology: Comets and Small Bodies: Interactions with solar wind plasma and fields
  • Planetology: Comets and Small Bodies: Plasma and MHD instabilities

Abstract

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 13, NO. 3, PP. 275-278, 1986
doi:10.1029/GL013i003p00275

Ion distribution functions in the vicinity of comet Giacobini‐Zinner

T. E. Cravens

Space Physics Research Laboratory, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Photoionization of neutral molecules in the coma surrounding a comet produces heavy ions which contaminate and mass‐load the solar wind. Cometary ion distribution functions in the vicinity of comet Giacobini‐Zinner (G/Z) are calculated using a Monte Carlo method. The distribution function calculated behind the shock has both cold (≈ 2 keV) and hot (≈ 40 keV) components.

Received 16 January 1986; accepted 28 January 1986; .

Citation: Cravens, T. E. (1986), Ion distribution functions in the vicinity of comet Giacobini‐Zinner, Geophys. Res. Lett., 13(3), 275–278, doi:10.1029/GL013i003p00275.

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