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Comet Halley–solar wind interaction from electron measurements aboard Giotto

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Measurements made by the three-dimensional electron spectrometer of the RPA-Copernic experiment aboard the Giotto spacecraft give a preliminary description of the complex interaction between comet Halley and the solar wind. As Giotto approached the comet, it traversed several regions of differing plasma characteristics: a large (∼107 km) upstream region, a foreshock, a bow wave with its apex at ∼4×105 km, a transition region, a region permanently and strongly contaminated by cometary ions, a collisionopause at a sub-solar distance of ∼5−6×104 km, and various inner regions up to the inner coma, including a region of depleted hot plasma.

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  1. Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, CNRS-Toulouse University, 31029, Toulouse Cedex, France

    H. Rème, J. A. Sauvaud, C. d'Uston, F. Cotin & A. Cros

  2. Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

    K. A. Anderson, C. W. Carlson, D. W. Curtis & R. P. Lin

  3. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, San Diego, California, 92093, USA

    D. A. Mendis

  4. Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie, PO Box 20, D-3411, Katlenburg-Lindau, FRG

    A. Korth & A. K. Richter

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Rème, H., Sauvaud, J., d'Uston, C. et al. Comet Halley–solar wind interaction from electron measurements aboard Giotto. Nature 321 (Suppl 6067), 349–352 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/321349a0

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