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Three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic model of the interaction between the solar wind and cometary atmospheres

Baranov, V. B.; Alexashov, D. B.; Lebedev, M. G.

A magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model of the interaction between the solar wind and an expanding gas flow issuing from a comet nucleus is presented. The processes of photoionization of the neutral component of the comet matter and the resonance charge exchange between charged and neutral particles are taken into account, together with the interplaneta…