Articles | Volume 34, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-691-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-691-2016
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Modified ion-Weibel instability as a possible source of wave activity at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Patrick Meier, Karl-Heinz Glassmeier, and Uwe Motschmann

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A new type of wave has been detected by the magnetometer of the Rosetta spacecraft close to comet P67/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. We provide the analytical model of this wave excitation from linear perturbation theory. A modified ion-Weibel instability is identified as source of this wave excited by a cometary current. The waves predominantly grow perpendicular to this current. A fan-like phase structure results from superposing the strongest growing waves in a cometary rest frame.