Plasma characterization at comet 67P between 2 and 4 AU from the Sun with the RPC-MIP instrument
| Autor: | Xavier Vallières, Jan Deca, Nicolas Gilet, Pierre Henri, Gaëtan Wattieaux |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Plasmas Réactifs Hors Equilibre (LAPLACE-PRHE), LAboratoire PLasma et Conversion d'Energie (LAPLACE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics [Boulder] (LASP), University of Colorado [Boulder], Institute for Modeling Plasma, Atmospheres and Cosmic Dust (IMPACT), NASA, PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), ANR-15-CE31-0009,SPECTRA,Sonder le Plasma dans l'Environnement d'une ComètE avec RosettA(2015) |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Physics
education.field_of_study Range (particle radiation) 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Plasma parameters Population Comet Astronomy and Astrophysics Plasma Electron Astrophysics 01 natural sciences Characterization (materials science) [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] Space and Planetary Science 0103 physical sciences Atomic physics education 010303 astronomy & astrophysics Noise (radio) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Astronomy and Astrophysics-A&A Astronomy and Astrophysics-A&A, EDP Sciences, 2020, 638, A124 (11 p.). ⟨10.1051/0004-6361/202037571⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1432-0746 0004-6361 |
| DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/202037571 |
| Popis: | The plasma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is analyzed based on the RPC-MIP mutual impedance probe data of the Rosetta mission. Numerical simulations of the RPC-MIP instrumental response considering two populations of electrons were fit on experimental responses acquired from January to September 2016 to extract the electron densities and temperatures. A time-tracking of the plasma parameters was performed, leading to the identification of a cold and a warm population of electrons during the period of interest. The respective densities and temperatures lie in the ranges [100; 1000] cm−3 and [0.05; 0.3] eV for the cold electrons and in the ranges [50; 500] cm−3 and [2; 10] eV for the warm electrons. Warm electrons most of the time made up between 10 and 30% of the whole population, while the temperature ratio between warm and cold electrons lay mostly between 30 and 70 during the period we studied. The fluctuation range of the plasma parameters, that is, the electron densities and temperatures, appears to have remained rather constant during the last nine months of the mission. We take the limitations of the instrument that are due to the experimental noise into account in our discussion of the results. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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