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Plasma Processes in the Outer Coma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

A. A. Galeev
A. A. Galeev*
Affiliation:
Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences 117810, GSP-7, Moscow, USSR

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Spacecraft encounters with comets Giacobini-Zinner and Halley revealed a great variety of collective plasma phenomena accompanying the interaction of the solar wind with comets. In this review, we discuss the theory and in situ measurements of the Alfvén wave turbulence and the solar wind loading by cometary ions, and the structure of the cometary bow shock.

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Type
Section VII: Plasmas and Fields
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 116 , Issue 2: Comets in the Post-Halley Era , 1991, pp. 1145 - 1169
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Copyright © Kluwer 1991

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