The paper reviews results on the plasma regime at Comet Giacobini-Zinner obtained by the International Cometary Explorer. The observations are consistent with the existence of a weak shock which may be pulsating, but do not exclude the suggestion that the shock, though present around the subsolar point, is an the process of decaying to a wave on the flanks. 'The pick-up' of cometary ions leads to ion cyclotron, mirror, beam, and electrostatic instabilities which cause strong turbulence in the inner coma.
The plasma regime at comet Giacobini-Zinner
Advances in Space Research ; 5 , 12, 1
1985-01-01
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