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从2015年11月到2016年3月在罗塞塔位置的彗星67 P的彗发中电子数密度的演变

The evolution of the electron number density in the coma of comet 67P at the location of Rosetta from 2015 November through 2016 March

Erik Vigren, Niklas J. T. Edberg, Anders I. Eriksson, Marina Galand, Pierre Henri, Fredrik L. Johansson, Elias Odelstad, Martin Rubin, Xavier Vallieres

摘要:

一个彗星电离层模型假设等离子体以与中性气体相同的整体速度径向向外移动,并且不受解离复合的严重减少,以前已经在与罗塞塔任务有关的一系列案例研究中进行了测试67 P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko彗星。人们已经发现,在低活性和几十公里内从核这样的模型(最初是为这种条件下开发的)一般工作良好,在再现观察到的电子数密度,特别是当等离子体生产通过光电离和电子碰撞电离考虑。相反,在近日点附近的案例研究表明,应用类似的假设高估了在罗塞塔位置观测到的电子数密度。在这里,我们将ROSINA/COPS驱动的模型结果与RPC/MIP导出的电子数密度进行了比较,这些电子数密度在南方夏季/春季的后近日点阶段延长了一段时间(2015年11月至2016年3月)。我们观察到从模型严重高估(超过10倍)观察结果的状态逐渐过渡到2016年3月期间的合理一致性。

英文摘要:

A comet ionospheric model assuming the plasma to move radially outward with the same bulk speed as the neutral gas and not being subject to severe reduction through dissociative recombination has previously been tested in a series of case studies associated with the Rosetta mission at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It has been found that at low activity and within several tens of km from the nucleus such models (which originally were developed for such conditions) generally work well in reproducing observed electron number densities, in particular when plasma production through both photoionization and electron-impact ionization is taken into account. Near perihelion, case studies have, on the contrary, showed that applying similar assumptions overestimates the observed electron number densities at the location of Rosetta. Here we compare ROSINA/COPS driven model results with RPC/MIP derived electron number densities for an extended time period (2015 November through 2016 March) during the post-perihelion phase with southern summer/spring. We observe a gradual transition from a state when the model grossly overestimates (by more than a factor of 10) the observations to being in reasonable agreement during 2016 March.

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