SIMON-WEDLUND , Cyril

The ability to conduct multi-point measurements is a hallmark of the ESA-JAXA/Comet Interceptor mission currently in development. The mission consists of one spacecraft (A) and two probes (B1 and B2) which are expected to fly by a medium- to high-activity comet at a high relative speed (up to 70 km/s). The payload on spacecraft A and on probes...

Far from an ideal laminar flow, the solar wind impacting planetary magnetospheres contains a spectrum of fluctuations extending to virtually all scales. The study of the effects of such fluctuations on a magnetosphere was until recently lacking a numerical tool which would provide a self-consistent global picture of such an interaction. Using a...