Accelerated cometary ions observed downstream of the Comet Halley bow shock

Details Accelerated cometary ions observed downstream of the Comet Halley bow shock Accelerated cometary ions observed downstream of the Comet Halley bow shock

Mar 1992

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Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 97, no. A3, March 1, 1992, p. 2891-2906.

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Bow Waves, Cometary Atmospheres, Energetic Particles, Halley'S Comet, Particle Acceleration, Solar Wind, Vega Project, Collisionless Plasmas, Distribution Functions, Giotto Mission, Oxygen Ions

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Results are presented of fluxes of energetic ions with energies exceeding 100 keV that were detected upstream of the bow shock of Comet Halley by the Tuende instrument on board the VEGA 1 spacecraft. Downstream of the shock, ion fluxes in the energy range 100 to 180 keV were observed. The measured ion fluxes were transformed into distribution functions in the solar wind frame using a variety of assumptions concerning the energy dependence of the distribution function and the identity of the ion species. The derived distribution function upstream of the shock falls off steeply with energy between 100 and 150 keV, with an effective temperature of about 7 keV or spectral index of about -15. The distribution function increases with decreasing cometocentric distance, on average, reaching a maximum at the bow shock. The measured distribution functions are compared with those obtained by similar instruments on Giotto and ICE as well as with the predictions of several theoretical models that employ different acceleration mechanisms.

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