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Magnetic fields near spacecraft-explored comets: 3D MHD numerical simulation

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

The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model of the interaction between the solar wind and a cometary ionosphere is presented. The model accounts for photoionization of the neutral component of the cometary outflow and the resonance charge exchange between charged and neutral particles, together with the interplanetary magnetic field. The numerical impleme…