Solar wind dynamics around a comet - The paradigmatic inverse-square-law model

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Form of the caustic obtained numerically by finding the root of ∂θ/∂ρ₀ (Eq. (41)). Three different zoom level are used, which can be interpreted as three levels of cometary activity. The left panel presents the same scale as Fig. 4, in which the density structure is clearly visible.

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