Comparison of the main magnetic and plasma features in the environments of comets Grigg-Skjellerup and Halley

Details Comparison of the main magnetic and plasma features in the environments of comets Grigg-Skjellerup and Halley Comparison of the main magnetic and plasma features in the environments of comets Grigg-Skjellerup and Halley

Aug 1995

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Advances in Space Research (ISSN 0273-1177), vol. 16, no. 4, p. (4)41-(4)45

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Boundary Layers, Cometary Magnetospheres, Grigg-Skjellerup Comet, Halley'S Comet, Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, Outgassing, Shock Waves, Solar Wind, Bow Waves, Electron Plasma, Giotto Mission

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The successful flyby of Giotto at the weakly active comet P/Grigg-Skjellerup on July 10, 1992 has added a new set of observations to those obtained at the active comet P/Halley in March 1986 for the study of the solar wind-comet interaction. Despite the very different scales of the interaction regions for the two comets (106 km for Halley and 104 km for GS, due to the two orders of magnitude difference in the neutral gas production rate), many similarities are revealed in their structure and in the characteristics of the main boundaries detected. The relevant electron plasma parameters and the magnitude field data are analyzed and compared for the first time around the bow wave / bow shock and the magnitude pileup boundary (MPB). Their properties are discussed and compared with the Halley observations. We particularly show the intrinsic cometary nature of the MPB at comets.

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