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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 43, 期 4, 页码 1411-1418出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL067436
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- German Ministerium fur Wirtschaft und Energie
- Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft-und Raumfahrt [50QP 1401]
We study the dynamics of the interaction between the solar wind ions and a partially ionized atmosphere around a comet, at a distance of 2.88 AU from the Sun during a period of low nucleus activity. Comparing particle data and magnetic field data for a case study, we highlight the prime role of the solar wind electric field in the cometary ion dynamics. Cometary ion and solar wind proton flow directions evolve in a correlated manner, as expected from the theory of mass loading. We find that the main component of the accelerated cometary ion flow direction is along the antisunward direction and not along the convective electric field direction. This is interpreted as the effect of an antisunward polarization electric field adding up to the solar wind convective electric field.
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