Grant, Samuel R;
Jones, Geraint H;
(2024)
Prospects for the Crossing by Earth of Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS’s Ion Tail.
Research Notes of the AAS
, 8
(10)
p. 252.
10.3847/2515-5172/ad83bf.
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Abstract
Abstract The Earth will pass approximately downstream of the previous position of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) during 2024 October 10–13. We predict that spacecraft at the Sun–Earth Lagrange Point 1, L1, have a significant likelihood to detect pickup ions from the comet, as well as changes in the solar wind associated with the crossing of the comet’s ion tail. Given the Earth’s magnetosphere is also likely to cross the ion tail, it is possible that geomagnetic signatures associated with this will be observed by spacecraft within the magnetosphere and possible at ground-based magnetometers, as observed during Comet 1P/Halley’s apparition in 1910.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Prospects for the Crossing by Earth of Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS’s Ion Tail |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3847/2515-5172/ad83bf |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/ad83bf |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. |
| Keywords: | Long period comets (933), Solar wind (1534), Space probes (1545), Comet ion tails (2313) |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10202429 |
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